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 =
Is there a way to return how many times each string occurs in the list?
hydrobat
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Jump to PostYes there is it's pretty simple too
mylist = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red'] for word in set(mylist): print word, "appears", mylist.count(word), "times."Hope that helps.
Chris
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Freaky_Chris
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Yes there is it's pretty simple too
mylist = ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'green', 'red', 'red']
for word in set(mylist):
print word, "appears", mylist.count(word), "times."Hope that helps.
Chris
hydrobat
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Awesome, thank you Chris!
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