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() 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