On Aug 16, 2013 11:05 AM, "Steven D&apos;Aprano" <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
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> I'll provide two functions: mode, which returns the single value with the highest frequency, or raises; and a second function, which collates the data into a sorted (value, frequency) list. Bike-shedding on the name of this second function is welcomed :-)

I'd call it counts() and prefer an OrderedDict for easy lookup. By that point you're very close to Counter though (which it currently uses internally).

Oscar