pandas just take the values value count code example

Example 1: count values pandas

>>> index = pd.Index([3, 1, 2, 3, 4, np.nan])
>>> index.value_counts()
3.0    2
4.0    1
2.0    1
1.0    1
dtype: int64

Example 2: pandas count number of rows with value

In [37]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':list('abssbab')})
df.groupby('a').count()

Out[37]:

   a
a   
a  2
b  3
s  2

[3 rows x 1 columns]