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

Cristian Figueiredo dos Santos
Cristian Figueiredo dos Santos
6,892 Points
Posted by Cristian Figueiredo dos Santos
Cristian Figueiredo dos Santos
6,892 Points

word_count works only outside the challenge window. What's missed?

I'm trying to solve this challenge but it's been returning the same error for a while. I cannot find what I'm missing! I've been testing that on de VScode and that's working properly. Could someone please help me?

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

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

See Jennifer's answer here regarding splitting on all whitespace