Determining Letter Frequency Of Cipher Text

Question

I am trying to make a tool that finds the frequencies of letters in some type of cipher text. Lets suppose it is all lowercase a-z no numbers. The encoded message is in a t

Answer 1

The modern way:

from collections import Counter

string = "ihavesometextbutidontmindsharing"
Counter(string)
#>>> Counter({'i': 4, 't': 4, 'e': 3, 'n': 3, 's': 2, 'h': 2, 'm': 2, 'o': 2, 'a': 2, 'd': 2, 'x': 1, 'r': 1, 'u': 1, 'b': 1, 'v': 1, 'g': 1})