Counting Letter Frequency in a String (Python)

Question

I am trying to count the occurrences of each letter of a word

word = input(\"Enter a word\")

Alphabet=[\'a\',\'b\',\'c\',\'d\',\'e\',\'f\',\'g\',\'h\',\'i\'         


        

Answer 1

Following up what LMc said, your code was already pretty close to functional, you just needed to post-process the result set to remove 'uninteresting' output. Here's one way to make your code work:

#!/usr/bin/env python
word = raw_input("Enter a word: ")

Alphabet = [
    'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m',
    'n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'
]

hits = [
    (Alphabet[i], word.count(Alphabet[i]))
    for i in range(len(Alphabet))
    if word.count(Alphabet[i])
]

for letter, frequency in hits:
    print letter.upper(), frequency

But the solution using collections.Counter is much more elegant/Pythonic.