30-seconds-of-code/snippets/most-frequent.md

title, tags, cover, firstSeen, lastUpdated

title	tags	cover	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Most frequent element	list	secret-tree	2019-10-12T00:40:49+03:00	2020-11-02T19:28:27+02:00

Returns the most frequent element in a list.

• Use set() to get the unique values in lst.
• Use max() to find the element that has the most appearances.

def most_frequent(lst):
  return max(set(lst), key = lst.count)

most_frequent([1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2]) #2