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: python ordereddict
>>>
>>> d = {'banana': 3, 'apple': 4, 'pear': 1, 'orange': 2}
>>>
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))
OrderedDict([('apple', 4), ('banana', 3), ('orange', 2), ('pear', 1)])
>>>
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[1]))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3), ('apple', 4)])
>>>
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: len(t[0])))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('apple', 4), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3)])
Example 4: collections counter
import collections
arr = [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3]
elements_count = collections.Counter(arr)
for key, value in elements_count.items():
print(f"{key}: {value}")
Example 5: python collections to dictionary
list = ["a","c","c","a","b","a","a","b","c"]
cnt = Counter(list)
od = OrderedDict(cnt.most_common())
for key, value in od.items():
print(key, value)