I’m on the very last step of the project, and I’m writing the for loop to print out the statement, which seems to break after the first iteration, and I can’t seem to figure out why.
Here’s my code:
def color_count(color):
count = 0
for thread in thread_sold_split:
if thread == color:
count += 1
return count
colors = ['red', 'yellow', 'green', 'white', 'black', 'blue', 'purple']
for color in colors:
color_count = color_count(color)
print('Thread Shed sold {color_count} {color} threads today.'.format(color_count=color_count, color=color))
It seems to work for the first iteration, but then throws a TypeError for the color_count variable inside the for loop saying that ‘int’ object is not callable.
for color in colors:
color_count = color_count(color)
You pass a string assigned to the variable color as the argument to the function color_count
The function color_count returns an integer value.
You are then assigning this returned value to the variable color_count.
Now, color_count is no longer a function but an integer.
You shouldn’t assign the returned integer to a variable with the same name as the name of the function.
so assigning the integer to a variable with the same name as the function renders the function useless? As in, it can no longer be called because the computer no longer sees color_count as a function, but rather as just the integer from the first iteration? If that’s the case, then does it break because now that color_count is just an integer, the (color) argument just purely doesn’t make sense with the syntax?
