Count the words

Write word_count(text) returning a dictionary from each word (split on spaces) to how many times it appears: "a b a" gives {"a": 2, "b": 1}.

def word_count(text):
    counts = {}
    for word in text.split():
        counts[word] = 1
    return counts

Run adds print(word_count("a b a")) after your code, to try it.

Stuck on the idea rather than the code? The Dictionaries lesson walks through it.