🔒 I don know if what i did is correct or bad

[pure hatch]

@strange wren

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[tulip quest]

I don't have time to do a full review, but the code in the screenshot is not legal Python.

[naive schooner]

does it pass all of the test?

[tulip quest]

To check equality, you need ==. = is for assigning a value, and isn't legal where you have it.

[strange wren]

ohhh

yes i forgor

but is the logoccorrect?

logic

[strange wren]

wat test

[naive schooner]

try running it

[tulip quest]

You can't just write code and then guess if it's functional. You need to be running and verifying your code as you write it.

[strange wren]

shud i call the array too, for it to run?

[strange wren]

i don know how this works

[naive schooner]

what happens if you run it as-is?

[strange wren]

as-is?

[naive schooner]

that means dont change anything

just run it

[strange wren]

it says

[naive schooner]

can you show the full instructions on the left?

[naive schooner]

what is this? are you doing something like codewars or leetcode? or are you doing some online course study?

[strange wren]

Freecodecamp

[naive schooner]

ah ok

[naive schooner]

can I get the link to that lesson? I'll try it myself. They're probably doing it differently

[strange wren]

okok

[naive schooner]

My guess is that you have to execute each test explicitly in the code

[strange wren]

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/daily-coding-challenge/2025-12-09https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/daily-coding-challenge/2025-12-09

[strange wren]

shud i call the array for it to be executed?

i mean call the function

did i just define it only?

[naive schooner]

Do you see a console to the right?

[strange wren]

yes

[naive schooner]

does it show anything when you run your code?

[strange wren]

yes

[naive schooner]

above this, there is a black background console. What does it show?

[naive schooner]

that doesnt look right

You havn't changed your code?

[strange wren]

I did

i mean i didnt

i just changed the ==

[naive schooner]

Your code is constantly being tested to see if its Python valid and that shows in the console on the right

[strange wren]

No😭

[naive schooner]

so if you had the = in that if condition, it should show that error message in the console

[strange wren]

it doesnt

[naive schooner]

can you take a full screenshot of the whole thing please?

instructions, code, console and the test result

all in one

[naive schooner]

Strange but ok and now click on the "Run the Tests" button and show me a new screenshot after clicking it

[naive schooner]

hmm

[naive schooner]

copy your code, paste it here, then click "Reset this lesson" button, then paste your code back in, and click "Run the Tests" button.

[subtle plover]

lines 5 and 6 aren't indented properly

there's an extra space

[naive schooner]

The terminal on the right should have caught that. Which is strange.

[strange wren]

wai lemme copy

[naive schooner]

freecodecamp's IDE autoruns the script to check if its valid Python code. So I don't know whats wrong with OP's

[strange wren]

def most_frequent(arr):
timesarray = []
for elements in arr:
totaltimes = 0
flag = False
diffrence = len(arr) - elements
for existence in range(diffrence):
if arr[elements] == arr[existence]:
flag = True
if flag == False:
for elements2 in arr:
if arr[element] == arr[elements2]:
totaltimes = totaltimes + 1
timesarray[element] = totaltimes
highestindex = 0
for elements3 in timesarray:
if timesarray[elements3] > timesarray[highestindex]:
highestindex = elements3
return arr[highestindex]

return arr

[pure hatch]

Hey @strange wren!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[strange wren]

no its still the same

[naive schooner]

show me a full screenshot

[naive schooner]

thats not right...

[strange wren]

yes its not

[naive schooner]

it should at least show the syntax error

[strange wren]

it doesnt show

[subtle plover]

which web browser are you using?

[naive schooner]

you did click on "Reset this lesson" button, before pasting your code back in, correct?

[strange wren]

google

[strange wren]

yes

[naive schooner]

I think something is blocking your script running in freecodecamp. Can you open up devtools?

Press F12

And show me the Console tab

[strange wren]

im on ipad💀

[naive schooner]

🤦‍♂️

[subtle plover]

lmao

[strange wren]

ill js download the app ahh😔

[naive schooner]

ok so now that button makes sense. When you press that "Run the Tests" button, it should revert back to black button. The button looks like its still being pressed.

[strange wren]

yes

[subtle plover]

'k, now let's get to debugging the actual code

[strange wren]

😔

[strange wren]

woww i don hab that

[subtle plover]

line 6 will throw an error in test case 1
it's doing len(arr) - elements but elements will take on the value of letters

!e 4 - "a"

[pure hatch]

:x: Your 3.14 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "/home/main.py", line 1, in <module>
003 |     4 - "a"
004 |     ~~^~~~~
005 | TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'int' and 'str'

[subtle plover]

the first thing it will do is throw an error

[strange wren]

btw its my first time in python, im switching languages 😭

[subtle plover]

no worries

you can chain functions together to make the code a bit more readable

for index in range(len(arr)):

[strange wren]

ohhh okok

[subtle plover]

How's your progress?

[subtle plover]

I'm getting confused about most of the code on lines 7 through 14

I know you're counting how many times it appears, but the how eludes me

[strange wren]

im checking if the data that i currently have in arr[elements] is already existing in the array until its index

if ot exists then i dont count it

if it doesnt exist then i count how many times ot exists in the array and i store it

if the array is [a,b,a,d,a] then when im looping i dont want to count for the 3rd element in the array bcz a is the first element already and i counted for it already

[subtle plover]

ok, say I feed your function the array: [1,1,1,2]
it will create a timesarray that looks like: [1,2,3,1]?

[strange wren]

i want the times array to look like[3, , , 1]

[naive schooner]

after this, you should learn through the basics on Python and maybe start at day 1 of the daily coding challenge. Its a lot simpler and easier to tackle than the later days.

but try and finish this one first though

[strange wren]

Okokayy

[subtle plover]

So, the simple way of solving this would be to just count the items in the array repeatedly.
That way, an input of: [1,1,1,2]
Becomes timesarray = [3,3,3,1]

Your solution is maybe more optimized, but still has O(n²) complexity

[strange wren]

loll okayyy

ill do that

thanksss

[naive schooner]

Done. Did it without collections or counter. Feels dirty using 2 loops

pseudocode wise, I used a dictionary to keep count of each unique element in the array and then loop the dictionary to find the highest count. I'm pretty sure there are better ways to do it

[subtle plover]

I'm tempted to do it in one line

[pure hatch]

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