Character counts of a string

Write a Python program to build a dictionary of character counts from a string.

"SQATools"

{'S': 1, 'Q': 1, 'A': 1, 'T': 1, 'o': 2, 'l': 1, 's': 1}

Approach

1. get(ch, 0) + 1 for each character.

Solution

text = "SQATools"counts = {}for ch in text:    counts[ch] = counts.get(ch, 0) + 1print(counts)

{'S': 1, 'Q': 1, 'A': 1, 'T': 1, 'o': 2, 'l': 1, 's': 1}

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