Is there a fast way to generate a dict of the alphabet in Python?

Question

I want to generate a dict with the letters of the alphabet as the keys, something like

letter_count = {\'a\': 0, \'b\': 0, \'c\': 0}

what

Answer 1

I find this solution more elegant:

import string
d = dict.fromkeys(string.ascii_lowercase, 0)