title: Is there a fast way to generate a dict of the alphabet in Python?
body: <p>I want to generate a dict with the letters of the alphabet as the keys, something like </p>
  
  <pre><code>letter_count = {'a': 0, 'b': 0, 'c': 0}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what would be a fast way of generating that dict, rather than me having to type it in?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help.</p>
  
  <p><b>EDIT</b><br>
  Thanks everyone for your solutions :)</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/17160/nosklo">nosklo's</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/453576/simple-python-question-is-there-a-fast-way-to-generate-a-dict-of-the-alphabet#453785">solution</a> is probably the shortest</p>
  
  <p>Also, thanks for reminding me about the Python <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/string.html" rel="noreferrer">string</a> module.</p>