Python program to calculate character frequency in a string
Learn to calculate the frequency of every character in Python 3.

Method 1 - Simple for loop
Code
user_input = input("Provide a string ==> ")
counter_dict = dict()
for char in user_input:
if char in counter_dict.keys():
counter_dict[char] += 1
else:
counter_dict[char] = 1
print(counter_dict)
Output
Provide a string ==> Pylenin
{'P': 1, 'y': 1, 'l': 1, 'e': 1, 'n': 2, 'i': 1}
Method 2 - Using count() method and set
Code
user_input = input("Provide a string ==> ")
counter_dict = dict()
char_set = set(user_input)
for char in char_set:
counter_dict[char] = user_input.count(char)
print(counter_dict)
Output
Provide a string ==> Pylenin
{'l': 1, 'P': 1, 'y': 1, 'e': 1, 'i': 1, 'n': 2}
Method 3 - Using collections library
Code
from collections import Counter
user_input = input("Provide a string ==> ")
counter_dict = Counter(user_input)
print(counter_dict)
Output
Provide a string ==> Pylenin
Counter({'n': 2, 'P': 1, 'y': 1, 'l': 1, 'e': 1, 'i': 1})
Method 4 - Using dict.get() method
Code
user_input = input("Provide a string ==> ")
counter_dict = dict()
for char in user_input:
counter_dict[char] = counter_dict.get(char, 0) + 1
print(counter_dict)
Output
Provide a string ==> pylenin
{'p': 1, 'y': 1, 'l': 1, 'e': 1, 'n': 2, 'i': 1}