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30,501 PointsWrite a function named covers that accepts a single parameter, a set of topics. Any idea what I might be doing wrong??
Thanks!!
COURSES =
{
"Python Basics": {"Python", "functions", "variables",
"booleans", "integers", "floats",
"arrays", "strings", "exceptions",
"conditions", "input", "loops"},
"Java Basics": {"Java", "strings", "variables",
"input", "exceptions", "integers",
"booleans", "loops"},
"PHP Basics": {"PHP", "variables", "conditions",
"integers", "floats", "strings",
"booleans", "HTML"},
"Ruby Basics": {"Ruby", "strings", "floats",
"integers", "conditions",
"functions", "input"}
}
def covers(arg):
get = []
for key, values in COURSES.items():
if values & arg:
get.append(key)
return get
covers({'Ruby'})
1 Answer
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsSo, it says that the input to the function will be a set. That means you need another loop inside the one you have to check each topic passed in the input arg
, and you want to check if the topic is in
values.
Let us know how you go with that, or if you need a little more help!
Also, you don't need to call the function at the end, the challenge system will do that automatically.