counting text values in a list pandas code example

Example 1: how to find no of times a elements in list python

thislist = (1, 3, 7, 8, 7, 5, 4, 6, 8, 5)

x = thislist.count(5)

print(x)

Example 2: python count occurrences of an item in a list

>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1].count(1)
3