title: Creating a dictionary without using counter
body: <p><code>INFO</code> is a <code>list</code> which I'm sorting using a <code>Counter</code> and would like the output to be in the form of a dictionary. However, I'm getting characters that aren't necessary:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wanted_dict = collections.Counter(INFO)
  &gt;&gt;&gt; Counter({'BLA': 102, 'BLABLA': 96, 'BLABLABLA': 96...})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The unnecessary characters being:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Counter
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  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to output the following instead?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; {'BLA': 102, 'BLABLA': 96, 'BLABLABLA': 96...}
  </code></pre>