Write a function named courses that takes the dictionary of teachers. It should return a list of all of the courses

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I have no clue what is wrong with my code. I'm sure it is another stupid misunderstanding of what the challenge is asking for. I wish we had access to the test data the course is using. It would make it a lot easier to figure out the problem.

teachers.py

# The dictionary will be something like:
# {'Jason Seifer': ['Ruby Foundations', 'Ruby on Rails Forms', 'Technology Foundations'],
#  'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Often, it's a good idea to hold onto a max_count variable.
# Update it when you find a teacher with more classes than
# the current count. Better hold onto the teacher name somewhere
# too!
#
# Your code goes below here.
def most_classes(teachers):
  max_count = 0
  max_teach = ''
  for teacher in teachers:
    if len(teachers[teacher]) > max_count:
      max_count = len(teachers[teacher])
      max_teach = teacher
  return max_teach

def num_teachers(teachers):
  return len(teachers)

def stats(teachers):
  stats_list = list()
  temp_list = list()
  for key in teachers:
    temp_list.append(key)
    temp_list.append(len(teachers[key]))
    stats_list.append(temp_list)
    temp_list = list()
  return stats_list


def courses(teachers):
  new_list = list()
  for key in teachers:
    new_list.append(teachers[key])
  return new_list

Answer 1 · 2015-07-22T04:20:35Z

July 22, 2015 4:20am

Hi Deborah,

Here is my (hopefully) self-documented example, which I have added comments to.

def courses(teachers): # definition for courses function
  course_output = []    # output currently empty... we will populate it soon.
  for course_total in teachers.values(): # for all of the values in teachers...
    for course in course_total: # for all of the values in the total of courses...
      course_output.append(course) # populate our empty output variable.
  return course_output # return the output variable, now that it is populated.

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Write a function named courses that takes the dictionary of teachers. It should return a list of all of the courses

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