Modal value of an array

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:44:56 -0300, Paddy <paddy3118 at googlemail.com>  
escribió:

> On Mar 29, 8:49 am, a... at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:

>> >>> foo = ["spam", "eggs", "spam", "spam", "spam", "beans", "eggs"]
>> >>> max(foo, key=foo.count)
>>
>> 'spam'
>
> This doesn't call foo.count for duplicate entries by keeping a cache
>
>>>> foo = ["spam", "eggs", "spam", "spam", "spam", "beans", "eggs"]
>>>> def cachecount(x, cache={}):
> ... 	return cache.setdefault(x, foo.count(x))

Unfortunately it does, because all arguments are evaluated *before* a  
function call, so you gain nothing.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina