Python- Count each letter in a list of words

Question

So I have a list of words `wordList = list().\' Right now, I am counting each letter in each of the words throughout the whole list using this code

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Answer 1

An alternative approach using the iterator combinators in itertools:

import collections
import itertools

cnt = collections.Counter(itertools.chain.from_iterable(itertools.imap(set, wordList)))