Count words in Python

Python interview exercise on Dicts & Sets, difficulty 1 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write word_counts(text) that returns how many times each whitespace-separated word appears, comparing case-insensitively (keys are lower-case).

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