How to get unique values with respective occurrence count from a list in Python?

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With Python 2.7+, you can use collections.Counter.

Otherwise, see this counter receipe.

Under Python 2.7+:

from collections import Counter
input =  ['a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b']
c = Counter( input )

print( c.items() )

Output is:

[(‘a’, 2), (‘b’, 3)]

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