Count Frequencies of Elements Using collections.Counter in Python

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Tips¶

collections.Counter is similar to a dict object. You can iterate through it similarly to how you iterate through a dict.

from collections import Counter

x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3]
cntr = Counter(x)
cntr

Counter({1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 3, 4: 2, 5: 2})

cntr.items()

dict_items([(1, 1), (2, 1), (3, 3), (4, 2), (5, 2)])

cntr.values()

dict_values([1, 1, 3, 2, 2])

cntr.values()

dict_values([1, 1, 3, 2, 2])