Finding the most frequent character in a string

Question

I found this programming problem while looking at a job posting on SO. I thought it was pretty interesting and as a beginner Python programmer I attempted to tackle it. Howe

Answer 1

Here's a way using FOR LOOP AND COUNT()

w = input()
r = 1
for i in w:
    p = w.count(i)
    if p > r:
        r = p
        s = i
print(s)