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are characters and values are their counts.<\/li>\n <li>Print the character counts in a readable format.<\/li>\n <li>Handle both uppercase and lowercase characters (case-sensitive or insensitive, your choice).<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n\n <h3 id=\"sample-interaction\">Sample Interaction:<\/h3>\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-box\">\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-header\">\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-col-title\">Input<\/div>\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-col-title\">Output<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-body\">\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-col-content\">hello world<\/div>\n <div class=\"py-receipt-sample-col-content\">Enter a string: hello world\nCharacter counts:\nh: 1\ne: 1\nl: 3\no: 2\n : 1\nw: 1\nr: 1\nd: 1<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div id=\"py-receipt-tab-solution\" class=\"py-receipt-pane-content\">\n <h1 id=\"solution\">Solution<\/h1>\n <p>Here is one way to solve this using a dictionary.<\/p>\n <div class=\"py-receipt-solution-block\"># 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