Word Count Objective

Hello,

I've been working on the word count challenge. I have a solution that I'm pretty sure is correct (I've run it through the console with several strings and it always has produced the correct output), but every time I submit the answer is rejected. This function should take a string and return a dictionary where every word is a key and the assigned value is the number of times the words appears.

Example:

word_count("Hello hello is there anybody in there")

{'hello': 2, 'is': 1, 'there': 2, 'anybody': 1, 'in': 1}

Code is below:

def word_count(string): list_of_words = string.lower().split(" ")

dictionary = {}

for word in list_of_words:
    count = 0
    for word_again in list_of_words:
        if word == word_again:
            count += 1
    dictionary[word] = count

return dictionary

Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

# E.g. word_count("I do not like it Sam I Am") gets back a dictionary like:
# {'i': 2, 'do': 1, 'it': 1, 'sam': 1, 'like': 1, 'not': 1, 'am': 1}
# Lowercase the string to make it easier.

def word_count(string):
    list_of_words = string.lower().split(" ")

    dictionary = {}

    for word in list_of_words:
        count = 0
        for word_again in list_of_words:
            if word == word_again:
                count += 1
        dictionary[word] = count

    return dictionary