Efficient way to count unique elements in array in numpy/scipy in Python

Question

I have a scipy array, e.g.

a = array([[0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 0, 1]])

I want to count the number of occurrences of each unique ele

Answer 1

for python 2.6 <

import itertools

data_array = [[0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 0, 1]]

dict_ = {}

for list_, count in itertools.groupby(data_array):
    dict_.update({tuple(list_), len(list(count))})