prints to you how many characters are in a string or a file

analyzestring.py

decid = input('would you like to analyze a string or a file?')


def printit(cheer):
    if cheer is not None or cheer != ' ':
        if textls.count(cheer) != 0:
            print(cheer + ":" + str(textls.count(cheer)))
    elif cheer is None:
        print("space:" + str(textls.count(cheer)))
    elif cheer == '\n':
        print('new lines:' + str(textls.count(cheer)))


if 'string' in decid:
    text = input("Enter a string to analyze: ").lower()
    textls = list(text)
elif 'file' in decid:
    path = input('Enter file path to analyze: ')
    with open(path, 'r') as f:
        text = f.read().lower()
        textls = list(text)

chars = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v',
         'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '', ']', '[', '\'',
         '}', '{', '\"', '\n','!','@','#','$','%','+','-','*','/','.','<','>','=','(',')',':',';']
for x in chars:
    printit(x)