input: Write a function to generate a Python dictionary that contains the count of the characters in a given string. The function should return the dictionary with character counts. If the string is empty, the function should return an empty dictionary.
  assert count_chars("Hello World")=={'H': 1, 'e': 1, 'l': 3, 'o': 2, ' ': 1, 'W': 1, 'r': 1, 'd': 1}
  assert count_chars("Python")=={'P': 1, 'y': 1, 't': 1, 'h': 1, 'o': 1, 'n': 1}
  assert count_chars("")=={}
output: def count_chars(s):
      if not s:
          return {}
      char_count = {}
      for char in s:
          if char in char_count:
              char_count[char] += 1
          else:
              char_count[char] = 1
      return char_count