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

a_to_z = [(chr(i+64), chr(i+64)) for i in range(1, 27)]

Output

[('A', 'A'), ('B', 'B'), ('C', 'C'), ('D', 'D'), ('E', 'E'), ('F', 'F'), ('G', 'G'), ('H', 'H'), ('I', 'I'), ('J', 'J'), ('K', 'K'), ('L', 'L'), ('M', 'M'), ('N', 'N'), ('O', 'O'), ('P', 'P'), ('Q', 'Q'), ('R', 'R'), ('S', 'S'), ('T', 'T'), ('U', 'U'), ('V', 'V'), ('W', 'W'), ('X', 'X'), ('Y', 'Y'), ('Z', 'Z')]