in my pythonic trolling of the internet, i found a character counter, written by ashoksk. given a string of text, return a count for each character in the string (a tool that might be used when attempting to crack an encrypted message)

so i wondered, could this be a python one liner? turns out that, from python 2.7 on, it can be (highlight to see the code below):

from collections import Counter
def fn(x): c = Counter(x); return {x: c[x] for x in c.keys()}

it’s a cheat, though. anyone have a real one-line implementation of this?

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