Character count in string

Question

def charcount(stri):
    for i in stri:
        count = 0
        for j in stri:
            if stri[i] == stri[j]:
                count += 1

I am new to python and currently learning string operations, can anyone tell me what is wrong in this program? The function tries to print a count of each character in given string.

For eg: string ="There is shadow behind you" I want to count how many times each character have come in string

Answer 1

Counting characters in a string can be done with the Counter() class like:

Code:

from collections import Counter

def charcount(stri):
    return Counter(stri)

print(charcount('The function try to print count of each character '
                'in given string . Please help'))

Results:

Counter({' ': 14, 'e': 7, 'n': 7, 't': 7, 'c': 5, 'i': 5, 
         'r': 5, 'h': 4, 'o': 4, 'a': 4, 'f': 2, 'u': 2, 
         'p': 2, 'g': 2, 's': 2, 'l': 2, 'T': 1, 'y': 1, 
         'v': 1, '.': 1, 'P': 1})