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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Word Count

Posted by bretthall2
bretthall2
1,796 Points

word_count challenge: why doesnt this code pass?

I've tried this in pycharm and it appears to do what is required in the challenge but it wont pass the code in the interpreter on treehouse. I keep getting the hmm didnt get the expected output msg with a reminder to lowercase the the string and split on the white space

wordcount.py 
# 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(my_string):
    my_string = my_string.lower().split(' ')
    cntr = {wrd: my_string.count(wrd) for wrd in my_string}
    return cntr

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

You are so close! You need to split on whitespace (with no argument) and not on a literal SPACE.

bretthall2
bretthall2
1,796 Points

Thanks Chris muchly appreciated, i have solved it now. haha who would have never thought the difference between .split(' ') and .split() would have driven me so close to quitting Treehouse. I just kept getting the same msg over and over with out any additional info.

thanks again :)