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Character count

Write a function with the following signature: charcount(text). The function receives an English text and returns a dictionary that has 28 key/value pairs. The keys of the dictionary should be the following: lower case letters of the English alphabet ("a", "b", …, "z"), "whitespace", and "other". The value of a key must indicate the number of occurrances of the given character in the input string.

Example:

charcount("cat and dog")

will return:

{'whitespace': 2, 'others': 0, 'a': 2, 'b': 0, 'c': 1, ..., 't': 1, ..., 'z': 0}