How can I add item in dictionary

Question

How can I add an item to a dictionary.l?

The question is:
To count a letter in a text. If the input is “word” , then the dictionary is {“w”:1, “o”:1,”r”:1,”d”:1}

Can I use .append()? What is the syntext for this

Answer 1

no append() in dictionary

str = input()

di = {i:str.count(i) for i in str}

di.update({"add1":6}) #adding key-value to di
di["add2"] = 7 #2nd method of adding
print(di)

Answer 2

OR You can do it like this

text = input()
d = {a:text.count(a) for a in text}

Answer 3

Endalk wow, really concise

Answer 4

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