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I am wanting to return the number of times certain letters are used to begin words in a .txt file. For instance, "stop talking tim" would have a s = 1 and t = 2 for the first character counts. How could I go about doing this?

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    Have you tried anything yet? If you have, please show your code. Explain what is not working out for you. – idjaw Mar 07 '16 at 18:13
  • Edit your question and put that code in there and format it properly, please. – idjaw Mar 07 '16 at 18:28

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Just to get you started, we were all beginners once:

from collections import Counter

s = "stop talking tim"
words = s.split()
letters = [w[0] for w in words]
print Counter(letters)

Gives:

Counter({'t': 2, 's': 1})
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