Text analyser

Question

def count_char(text, char):
count = 0
for i in text:
if i == char:
count += 1
return count

text = input("Enter a filename: ")
print(text)
print(count_char(text, "a"))

#count_char("mahalakshmi", 'a') why output doesnt come or this line, but the previous lines gives output

Answer 1

You preceded the whole line with a hash sign (#) which means a comment in Python. Basically, the interpreter ignores this line treating it as a comment only.

Answer 2

Also, your function doesn't contain a print function, so if you want to print the returned value, you need to say
print(count_char("mahalakshmi", 'a'))