# Created by sarathkaul on 17/11/19 from collections import defaultdict def word_occurence(sentence: str) -> dict: """ >>> from collections import Counter >>> SENTENCE = "a b A b c b d b d e f e g e h e i e j e 0" >>> occurence_dict = word_occurence(SENTENCE) >>> all(occurence_dict[word] == count for word, count ... in Counter(SENTENCE.split()).items()) True """ occurence = defaultdict(int) # Creating a dictionary containing count of each word for word in sentence.split(" "): occurence[word] += 1 return occurence if __name__ == "__main__": for word, count in word_occurence("INPUT STRING").items(): print(f"{word}: {count}")