count occurrences of each character in string python

Question

How to get the number from the occurences of individual characters

Supose the string is:

x = 'cdfghcfonccn'

  How can i solve this problem.

Answer 1

To solve your problem in a simple way you can use the code:

x = 'cdfghcfonccn'
dict((letter, x.count(letter)) for letter in set(x)

If you are using python 2.7 or python 3 you can use a tool named ‘Counter’:

import collections
results = collection.counter("cdfghcfonccn")
results

There is a tested method for counting this(python 3):

characlist = {}
for a in x:
    if a in characlist.keys():
         characlist [a]+=1
    else:
         characlist[a] = 1
print(characlist)