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

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Most frequent element	snippet	list	secret-tree	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