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Counting letters in string

I have a question for python. How do I count repeated letters in a string. Apart from comparing each character with a-z? Thank you in advance.

31st Jan 2020, 6:25 PM
Tom
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31st Jan 2020, 6:47 PM
Sudarshan Rai
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//welcome
31st Jan 2020, 6:48 PM
Sudarshan Rai
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s = 'abracadabra' print(*(f'{letter}: {s.count(letter)}' for letter in sorted(set(s))), sep='\n')
31st Jan 2020, 7:20 PM
HonFu
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Question unclear. How can you count the occurance of a letter, if you don't even know what letter it is ?
31st Jan 2020, 6:45 PM
Aymane Boukrouh
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I meant this: You enter a random string for example “hello there!” and then I wish to know how to count the letters so 2x l, or 3x e.
31st Jan 2020, 6:47 PM
Tom
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Thank you!
31st Jan 2020, 6:48 PM
Tom
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