30-seconds-of-code/snippets/frequencies.md

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frequencies	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 dict() constructor to return a dictionary with the unique elements of the list as keys and their frequencies as the values.

def frequencies(lst):
  return dict((k, lst.count(k)) for k in lst)

frequencies(['a', 'b', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'a', 'b']) # { 'a': 4, 'b': 2, 'c': 1 }