My assignment is to create a 'love calculator" I need to compare the input to a list of letters. The problem I am trying to solve is my code is giving a count of each letter not a total number of matches. Well it is but not in a way that is useful to me. Thanks for your help

def count_items_in_strings(search_list, name1):
count_dict = {}

# Convert search items to lowercase for case-insensitive search
search_list = [item.lower() for item in search_list]

for string in name1:
    # Convert the input string to lowercase
    name1 = string.lower()

    for item in search_list:
        count = name1.count(item)
        if item in count_dict:
            count_dict[item].append(count)
        else:
            count_dict[item] = [count]

return count_dict
#inputs
name1 = 'Angela Yu'
search_list = ['t', 'r','u','e', 'l', 'o','v','e']
counts = count_items_in_strings(search_list, name1)
Print the results
print(counts)

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