How to create a program that counts how many times each letter appears in a text?

Question

Given a string as input, I need to output how many times each letter appears in the string. I decided to store the data in a dictionary, with the letters as the keys, and the corresponding counts as the values. How to Create a program that takes a string as input and output a dictionary, which represents the letter count that should be lowercase.

Sample Input

hello

Sample Output

{'h': 1, 'e': 1, 'l': 2, 'o': 1}

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '22 at 16:16

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How about something like:

text = "This is the text to analyse"
dict = {}
for char in text:
    if char in dict:
        dict[char] += 1
    else:
        dict[char] = 1
print(dict)

answered Mar 24 '22 at 16:16

Stephen Graham

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It worked. Thanks. It was just needed to put input() in front of text – Null Mar 24 '22 at 16:20
I think that's a solution that does the trick in an elegant way. I'm just throwing in the suggestion to use char.lower() instead of char, to make it non-case-sensitive. – Schnitte Mar 24 '22 at 16:22
see `collections.Counter` – RufusVS Mar 24 '22 at 18:47

How to create a program that counts how many times each letter appears in a text?

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