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String Partition

Given a string s consisting of lowercase letters, your task is to partition this string into substrings such that each substring must contain distinct characters. Write a program that counts all possible ways to partition the string into such substrings. Input format: - A single line containing the string s (1 ≤ |s| ≤ 15). Output format: - A single integer representing the total number of distinct partitions. Example: Input: abbc Output: 5 In this example, the valid partitions are: ['a', 'b', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'bc'], ['ab', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'bb', 'c'], ['abb', 'c'].

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