Is there a way of only printing the dictionary in a Counter() output?

Question

I am counting the total occurrences of each item:

from collections import Counter

colors = ['green', 'blue', 'green', 'white', 'white']
colorTotals = Counter(colours)

print(colorTotals)

Running the code prints: Counter({'green': 2, 'white': 2, 'blue': 1}) but I only want to print the dictionary, something like: {'green': 2, 'white': 2, 'blue': 1}

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

print(dict(colorTotals))

Which outputs

{'green': 2, 'blue': 1, 'white': 2}

Answer 2

dict(colorTotals) is the standard way. If you're golfing, you could also use {**colorTotals} or {}|colorTotals or colorTotals|{} (the latter two require Python 3.9). I see no circumstance where you'd ever use your str+literal_eval way.