how to find what number appears most in list python code example

Example 1: python find most occuring element

from collections import Counter

a = [1936, 2401, 2916, 4761, 9216, 9216, 9604, 9801] 

c = Counter(a)

print(c.most_common(1)) # the one most common element... 2 would mean the 2 most common
[(9216, 2)] # a set containing the element, and it's count in 'a'

Example 2: how to get the most common number in python

>>> from statistics import mode
>>> mode((1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 2, 3, 8, 4, 4, 4))
4