How to get the item frequency count in Python?

Sometimes, we want to get the item frequency count in Python.

In this article, we’ll look at how to get the item frequency count in Python.

To get the item frequency count in Python, we can use the collections module.

For instance, we write:

from collections import Counter

words = "apple banana apple strawberry banana lemon"
counts = Counter(words.split())
print(counts)

We use the Counter class with the words string split into a list with split by the spaces.

This lets us get the count of each word in a string.

Therefore, counts is Counter({'apple': 2, 'banana': 2, 'strawberry': 1, 'lemon': 1}).

To get the item frequency count in Python, we can use the collections module.