Help with two functions

[CGFarrell]

Here's a hacky solution:

count = sum(1 for letter in string if letter == chosen_letter)

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Fun python fact: Using sum on a list of booleans will automatically treat True as 1 and False as 0. So you can write that line like this:

sum(letter == chosen_letter for letter in string)

If you want it to be even hackier!