I have an assignment where I need to count the special characters in the string where it occurs the most.

The file I have contains three paragraphs with text and I need to compare them to each other to see where a set of characters occur and then count them where they occur the most.

Lines in the text:
`'I cannot go now. Give me lunch first at 12:15.'` 

`After 13:100, he took a nap for until 13:15. Then in the late afternoon on 2018-11:30 at 16:30, he picked some bags and went to the palace. On the way, he felt hot so he sat under a tree to rest. Then, two hours later at 18:30, he got up to go but saw a man showing some magic tricks. He stopped to watch for an until 21:04.`

`When he reached the palace it was already after 21:03. The palace gates had been shut. So Haria had lost a golden chance because he had not learned the value of time on the 2018-13-01, a beautiful day.`

The code I have so far:

```
number_of_specials = 0
c = ['.', '.', ';', ':', '!', '?']
top = []
top_c1 = 0
top_c2 = 0
top_c3 = 0

with open(TEXT, "r") as fh:
    for line in fh:
        top.append(line.split("\n")) //to get the lines

if c in top[0]:
    top_c1 += 1

```

Not sure where to go from here, any pointers would be appreciated