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

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count_occurences	list,beginner

Counts the occurrences of a value in a list.

• Increment a counter for every item in the list that has the given value and is of the same type.

def count_occurrences(lst, val):
  return len([x for x in lst if x == val and type(x) == type(val)])

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