codingdirectional: Count the number of occurrences of each character and return it as a list of tuples in order of appearance

In this example we are going to create a function which will count the number of occurrences of each character and return it as a list of tuples in order of appearance. For example,

ordered_count("abracadabra") == [('a', 5), ('b', 2), ('r', 2), ('c', 1), ('d', 1)]

The above is a 7 kyu question on CodeWars, this is the only question I can solve today after the first two fail attempts.

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def ordered_count(input):

    already = []
    input_list = list(input)
    return_list = []
    for word in input_list:
        if(word not in already):
            return_list.append((word, input_list.count(word)))
            already.append(word)

    return return_list

The solution above is short and solid, hope you like it.

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