Python 3 elegant way to find most/less common element in a list
How to find the most/less common element of a list or statistics for the elements in a list. Using two different ways:
Counter from collections
count and set
Testing performance of both methods with python 3.6
Python 3 Find Most or Less Common Elements of a List
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Code examples
find less common
from collections import Counter
cnt = Counter()
for my_list in [5, 3, 7, 5, 3, 7, 3, 14, 12, 5, 6, 11, 3]:
cnt[my_list] -= 1
print(cnt.most_common(5))
print(cnt)
find most common
from collections import Counter
cnt = Counter()
for my_list in [5, 3, 7, 5, 3, 7, 3, 14, 12, 5, 6, 11, 3]:
cnt[my_list] += 1
print(cnt.most_common(1))
print(cnt)
find most common
my_list = [5, 3, 7, 5, 3, 7, 3, 14, 12, 5, 6, 11, 3]
print(max(set(my_list), key=my_list.count))
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