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stoggi/character_frequency.py

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Calculates the number of repeated characters in a given text
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character_frequency.py
from collections import defaultdict
def character_frequency(text):
frequency = defaultdict(int)
for character in text:
frequency[character] += 1
return frequency
character_frequency("Hello World!!")
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