<p>As an example, lets say I wanted to list the frequency of each letter of the alphabet in a string. What would be the easiest way to do it?</p>

<p>This is an example of what I'm thinking of... the question is how to make allTheLetters equal to said letters without something like allTheLetters = "abcdefg...xyz". In many other languages I could just do letter++ and increment my way through the alphabet, but thus far I haven't come across a way to do that in python.</p>

<pre><code>def alphCount(text):
  lowerText = text.lower()
  for letter in allTheLetters:  
    print letter + ":", lowertext.count(letter)
</code></pre>

Something like this?
```
```
for letter in range(ord('a'), ord('z') + 1):
  print chr(letter) + ":", lowertext.count(chr(letter))
```
```