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the
for x in y
statement takes iterabley
and assigns a value from it tox
per iteration (loop), so what happens is that it's reassigningchosen_char
each loop to the next item from the sentence(
sum([x for x in sentence if x == chosen_char])
would be a quick one-liner, presuming one has downcased the sentence and other input/safety checks)(e: this post was in response to your 2-liner comment in the code)