Question

I want to generate a dict with the letters of the alphabet as the keys, something like

letter_count = {'a': 0, 'b': 0, 'c': 0} 

what would be a fast way of generating that dict, rather than me having to type it in?

Answer 1

I find this solution elegant:

import string d = dict.fromkeys(string.ascii_lowercase, 0) print(d) # {'a': 0, 'b': 0, 'c': 0, 'd': 0, 'e': 0, 'f': 0, 'g': 0, 'h': 0, 'i': 0, 'j': 0, 'k': 0, 'l': 0, 'm': 0, 'n': 0, 'o': 0, 'p': 0, 'q': 0, 'r': 0, 's': 0, 't': 0, 'u': 0, 'v': 0, 'w': 0, 'x': 0, 'y': 0, 'z': 0}