How to count the frequency of the elements in an unordered list?

Question

I need to find the frequency of elements in an unordered list

a = [1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,4,5,5]

output->

b =         


        

Answer 1

i'm using Counter to generate a freq. dict from text file words in 1 line of code

def _fileIndex(fh):
''' create a dict using Counter of a
flat list of words (re.findall(re.compile(r"[a-zA-Z]+"), lines)) in (lines in file->for lines in fh)
'''
return Counter(
    [wrd.lower() for wrdList in
     [words for words in
      [re.findall(re.compile(r'[a-zA-Z]+'), lines) for lines in fh]]
     for wrd in wrdList])