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Python Exercise: Find the most common elements and their counts of a specified text

Python Collections: Exercise-2 with Solution

Write a Python program to find the most common elements and their counts of a specified text.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from collections import Counter
s ='lkseropewdssafsdfafkpwe'
print("Original string: "+s)
print("Most common three characters of the said string:")
print(Counter(s).most_common(3))

Sample Output:

Original string: lkseropewdssafsdfafkpwe
Most common three characters of the said string:
[('s', 4), ('e', 3), ('f', 3)]

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Python Collections: Find the most common elements and their counts of a specified text.

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Returns the most frequent element in a list

Example:

def tips_most_frequent(list):
    return max(set(list), key=list.count)
print(tips_most_frequent([1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2]))

Output:

2