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Count Characters

Character counts are the core of BookBot's analysis. We'll store them in a dictionary where each key is a character and each value is the number of times it appears.

To get accurate totals, we can convert all characters to lowercase with the .lower() method. That way uppercase and lowercase letters share one count. Spaces and symbols should also be included in the dictionary.

For example, "Boot!" produces:

{"b": 1, "o": 2, "t": 1, "!": 1}

Assignment

Add a function to stats.py that accepts the book's text and returns a dict[str, int] containing the count of every character, including spaces and symbols. Convert each character to lowercase with .lower().
Import and call the function in main.py, and capture the result in a new variable.
After printing the word count, print the dictionary of characters and their counts.

Run and submit the CLI tests from the root of your project.