Character Occurrence Counter | Dataford Interview Questions

Write code to find unique characters and their occurrences in a string.

Implement count_character_occurrences(s) to return a dictionary mapping every distinct character in s to its frequency. Treat uppercase and lowercase characters as different, preserve spaces and punctuation, and preserve the order in which characters first appear. Return an empty dictionary for an empty string.

Input and Output

Input: a string s.
Output: a dictionary of character-to-count mappings.

Constraints

0 <= len(s) <= 10^5
The input contains Unicode characters supported by Python strings
Character matching is case-sensitive
Spaces and punctuation must be counted

Function Signature

def count_character_occurrences(s):

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