Hopelessly Lost And Desperate Newbie

[Andrew Koenig]

> Hello, there.  I'm desperately in need of assistance, because I can't
figure
> out how to get Python to work.  Could someone help me with a program that
can
> examine textual input in pairs of letters, keep track of how often the
letters
> occur, and then write a random letter generator based on that input, do
you?

> I mean,....well, let's say that this thing (in its most primitive state)
would
> just count the occurances of a single letter. From the input, "a" occurs
12
> times, "z" occurs 3 times, "q" occurs once, "e" occurs fifteen times, etc.

I suggest you start by writing a program that does just this part.  Once
you've gotten that far, post your program here and ask for suggestions on
how to improve it.