Python- Count each letter in a list of words

Question

So I have a list of words `wordList = list().\' Right now, I am counting each letter in each of the words throughout the whole list using this code

cnt = C         


        

Answer 1

You can eliminate a for with update, which updates count from an iterable (in this case, a string):

from collections import Counter
words = 'happy harpy hasty'.split()
c=Counter()
for word in words:
    c.update(set(word))
print c.most_common()
print [a[0] for a in c.most_common()]

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[('a', 3), ('h', 3), ('y', 3), ('p', 2), ('s', 1), ('r', 1), ('t', 1)]
['a', 'h', 'y', 'p', 's', 'r', 't']