Akansha YadavData Science & Coding (Python) | MySQL

How to Count the Occurence of an Element in a List #coding #python #pythonprogramming

13 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this short tutorial, Akansha Yadav walks through creating a Python function that counts how many times a specified element appears in a list. She defines a function that takes two arguments—a list and the target element—then returns the result of the built‑in list.count() method. To illustrate, she calls the function with a sample list containing several occurrences of the number 2, showing that the function correctly reports the element appears four times. The video demonstrates the straightforward use of list.count() for this common task and prints the result.

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Let's write a Python program to check the occurrence of a specific element from a list. So here we are, our task is within the list. So I'm going to create a function where I'm going to count from the list. So I'm creating a variable, say given_list, and the element are the two arguments that I'm going to pass to the function. Then I'm returning the given list and basically the element I'm going to find it out. So I will be using a function called count which will help me to count it out. Then I'm printing the function count and providing it a list with the number of items, let's say 1, 2, 2, 3. Then again writing 2, 2 so that number of times it increases. And I'm trying to figure out 2, how many times 2 is there in the list. So let's run it. We got 4. So yes, it is 4 times.