Example 1: counter method in python
from collections import Counter
list1 = ['x','y','z','x','x','x','y','z']
print(Counter(list1))
Example 2: collections.counter in python
>>> from collections import Counter
>>>
>>> myList = [1,1,2,3,4,5,3,2,3,4,2,1,2,3]
>>> print Counter(myList)
Counter({2: 4, 3: 4, 1: 3, 4: 2, 5: 1})
>>>
>>> print Counter(myList).items()
[(1, 3), (2, 4), (3, 4), (4, 2), (5, 1)]
>>>
>>> print Counter(myList).keys()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>
>>> print Counter(myList).values()
[3, 4, 4, 2, 1]
Example 3: import counter python
from collections import Counter
Example 4: counter method in python
Counter({'o': 3, ' ': 3, 'u': 3, 'e': 2, 'l': 2, 't': 2, 'r': 2, '9': 2, 'W': 1,
'c': 1, 'm': 1, 'G': 1, 'T': 1, 'i': 1, 'a': 1, 's': 1, '!': 1})
Example 5: python counter
>>> # Tally occurrences of words in a list
>>> cnt = Counter()
>>> for word in ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue']:
... cnt[word] += 1
>>> cnt
Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1})
>>> # Find the ten most common words in Hamlet
>>> import re
>>> words = re.findall(r'\w+', open('hamlet.txt').read().lower())
>>> Counter(words).most_common(10)
[('the', 1143), ('and', 966), ('to', 762), ('of', 669), ('i', 631),
('you', 554), ('a', 546), ('my', 514), ('hamlet', 471), ('in', 451)]
Example 6: python counter
>>> Counter('abracadabra').most_common(3)
[('a', 5), ('r', 2), ('b', 2)]