# finding frequency of each element in a list from collections import Counter my_list = ['a','a','b','b','b','c','d','d','d','d','d'] count = Counter(my_list) # defining a counter object print(count) # Of all elements # Counter({'d': 5, 'b': 3, 'a': 2, 'c': 1}) print(count['b']) # of individual element # 3 print(count.most_common(1)) # most frequent element # [('d', 5)]