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List operation problem

Nov 29th, 2008

Greetings. I'm a python noob and I'm stuck with some coding.

Say you have a list with a number of elements, some of which are the same. For instance:
mylist = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red']

Is there a way to return how many times each string occurs in the list?

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Re: List operation problem

Nov 29th, 2008

Yes there is it's pretty simple too

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mylist = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red']
 
for word in set(mylist):
    print word, "appears", mylist.count(word), "times."
mylist = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red']

for word in set(mylist):
    print word, "appears", mylist.count(word), "times."