I'm supposed to create a program that takes a string as input and outputs a dictionary which represents the letter count.

Question

For example
Input:
good
Output
{g:1, o:2, d:1}

I've tried creating the program but i just don't get it

Answer 1

You can use dictionary comprehension with count method to do it in 1 line.

Answer 2

Gee Pebbles

a=input()

{i:a.count(i) for i in a }

Answer 3

Abhay thanks 🙂

Answer 4

Abhay thanks

Answer 5

Abhay thanks

Answer 6

Or you can loop over the string , check if letter exists in dict , if not add it with key and value 1 otherwise increment the value for that dictionary key.

Answer 7

You can use dictionary comprehension with count method to do it in 1 line.

Abhay can you show me how