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

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most_frequent	list,beginner

Returns the most frequent element in a list.

Use set(list) to get the unique values in the list combined with max() to find the element that has the most appearances.

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

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