Counter
Explore how to use Python's Counter class to simplify counting items in iterables. Learn to extract and interpret the most common elements with list and tuple handling for effective data analysis.
Overview
You’d think that algorithms could not get much simpler than
using defaultdict(int). The I want to count specific instances in an iterable use case is common enough that the Python developers created a specific class for this exact purpose, simplifying things further. The previous code that counts characters in a ...