From 2da7bcd61276989e1ee0a95024a2f905c1415426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guru kiran <47276342+gurukiran07@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:34:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Updated frequencies.md, Resolves#362

---
 snippets/frequencies.md | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/snippets/frequencies.md b/snippets/frequencies.md
index 91dc18eda..13657b0b9 100644
--- a/snippets/frequencies.md
+++ b/snippets/frequencies.md
@@ -5,12 +5,16 @@ tags: list,intermediate
 
 Returns a dictionary with the unique values of a list as keys and their frequencies as the values.
 
-- Use `list.count()` to get the frequency of each unique element.
+- Use `collections.defaultdict()` to store the frequencies of each unique element.
 - Use `dict()` constructor to return a dictionary with the unique elements of the list as keys and their frequencies as the values.
 
 ```py
+from collections import defaultdict
 def frequencies(lst):
-  return dict((k, lst.count(k)) for k in lst)
+  freq = defaultdict(int)
+  for val in lst:
+    freq[val]+=1
+  return dict(freq)
 ```
 
 ```py