[Tutor] Looking for duplicates within a list

[Alan Gauld]

"Ken G." <beachkid at insightbb.com> wrote

> In any event, if a number is listed more than once, I would like to 
> know how many times, such as 2 or 3 times.  For example, '3' is 
> listed twice within a list.

Have you looked at the count method of lists?

Something like:

counts = set(( item, mylist.count(item)) for item in mylist if 
mylist.count(item) > 1)

Seems to work...

HTH,


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