30-seconds-of-code/python/snippets/count-occurrences.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Count occurrences	snippet	list	pineapple-at-work	2021-01-10T00:00:36+02:00

Counts the occurrences of a value in a list.

• Use list.count() to count the number of occurrences of val in lst.

def count_occurrences(lst, val):
  return lst.count(val)

count_occurrences([1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3], 1) # 3