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The count() method is used to find the number of times a specific element occurs in a list. It is very useful in scenarios where we need to perform frequency analysis on the data.

Let’s look at a basic example of the count() method.

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a = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4]  c = a.count(1) print(c)


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Output 
3

Explanation: a.count(1) counts the occurrences of 1 in the list, as it is occurring 3 times in the list so the output is 3.

Syntax

list_name.count(value)

Prameters:

  • list_name: The list object where we want to count an element.
  • value: The element whose occurrences need to be counted.

Return Type: it an integer value, which represents the number of times the specified element appears in the list.

Examples of count() method

Example 1: Lits Containing Different Datatypes

The count() method also works well with list that have different types of data.

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a = [1, 'GfG', 3.14, 'GfG', 1, True]  c1 = a.count('GfG') c2 = a.count(1)  print(c1) print(c2)


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Output
2 3

Explanation:

  • ‘GfG’ appears twice.
  • 1 appears twice explicitly, but True is also counted because True == 1 in Python, making the total count three.

Example 2: Count occurrence of sub-list in list of Lists

The count() method does not search within nested lists and it will only count occurrences at the top level.

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a = [1, [2, 3], 1, [2, 3], 1]  c = a.count([2, 3]) print(c)


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Output 
2

Explanation: The sublist [2, 3] is treated as a single element in the list. The count() method counts it twice because it appears twice as a nested list.

Example 3: Counting Word Frequency in a List

This example simulates word analysis in a sentence by counting how often a word appears.

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s = "python is easy to learn and python is powerful".split()  c1 = s.count("python") c2 = s.count("is")  print(c1) print(c2)


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Output 
count of python:  2 count of is:  2

Explanation:

  • .split() method splits the string into a list of words.
  • We use count() to check how many times “python” and “is” appear.

Related articles:

  • Count occurrences of an element in a list
  • How to Get the Number of Elements in a Python List?
  • Find all elements count in list
  • Find most frequent element in a list

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