Returns how many items in the list have the valuevalue. code example

Example 1: count the number of times a value appears in python

# vowels list
vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'i', 'u']

# count element 'i'
count = vowels.count('i')

# print count
print('The count of i is:', count)

# count element 'p'
count = vowels.count('p')

# print count
print('The count of p is:', count)

Example 2: count the number of times a value appears in python

The count of i is: 2
The count of p is: 0