Word_count issue. My test cases worked but in the challenge, it doesn't get the correct answer.

Question

I have the following code:

def word_count(string): string = string.lower() list_string = string.split(" ") key_items = {} for word in list_string: key_items[word] = list_string.count(word) return(key_items)

When I tried to test, it comes out correctly... Is there anything I am missing?

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(string):
    string = string.lower()
    list_string = string.split(" ")
    key_items = {}
    for word in list_string:
        key_items[word] = list_string.count(word)
    return(key_items)

Answer 1 · 2018-10-11T13:49:11Z

October 11, 2018 1:49pm

Your code is very close, but the challenge wants you to split on all whitespace. Your code splits on spaces, which is a type of whitespace, but there are lots of other characters considered whitespace. Like line breaks, tabs, and other things like that.

The code works on the example input since that only uses spaces, but the example input the challenges shows you is often different from the value they actually pass to the function. They often differ in order to make it harder to cheat the challenge checker by hardcoding your return to the right values.

Conveniently enough the split method actually splits on all whitespace by default, so if you remove the argument from your split method like this:

list_string = string.split()

Then your code will work.

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Word_count issue. My test cases worked but in the challenge, it doesn't get the correct answer.

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