Given: a list, such as l=[4,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,7,7,7] Todo: get the count of an element and keep their occurrence order, e.g.: [(4,4),(5,3),(6,1),(7,3)]
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If you are using Python 2.7, you can use the Counter from collections, which does exactly what you are looking to do:
http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
>>> import itertools
>>> [(k, len(list(g))) for k, g in itertools.groupby(l)]
[(4, 4), (5, 3), (6, 1), (7, 3)]
This keeps the order of the items and also allows repeated items:
>>> l=[4,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,7,7,7,4,4,4,4,4]
>>> [(k, len(list(g))) for k, g in itertools.groupby(l)]
[(4, 4), (5, 3), (6, 1), (7, 3), (4, 5)]
Use groupby
:
>>> l = [4,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,7,7,7,2,2]
>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> [(i, l.count(i)) for i,_ in groupby(l)]
[(4, 4), (5, 3), (6, 1), (7, 3), (2, 2)]