Python - Ready text file and report count of individual characters -

i have python script prints out randomly generated password, prints prints text file, adding new row every time called. example:

pswd = (str(pswd01)) + (str(pswd02)) + (str(pswd03)) + (str(pswd04)) # note, variables pswd01, pswd02 etc randomly created earier in script.   print(pswd)   open('pswd_output.txt','a') f:     f.write(pswd + '\n') f.close() 

note, variable pswd contains lower case, upper case, , numbers.

i want read file , count number of individual characters, , print report different text file, not sure how can this. have asked similar question here, answers how print character report console.

any idea how can read pswd_output.txt, , count each different character, writing result separate text file?

any appreciated!

use dictionaries count characters repeat below:

my_dictionary = {}  f =  open('pswd_output.txt','r') line = f.readline() while(line):     letter in line:         if letter in my_dictionary:             my_dictionary[letter] +=1         else:             my_dictionary[letter] = 1     line = f.readline()  print my_dictionary 

for text file containing:

salam asjf asjg; asdkj 14kj'asdf  5 

returns:

>>> ================================ restart ================================ >>>  {'a': 6, 'j': 4, 'd': 2, 'g': 1, 'f': 2, 'k': 2, '\n': 6, 'm': 1, 'l': 1, "'": 1, '1': 1, 's': 5, '5': 1, '4': 1, ';': 1} >>>