The count() method counts how many times an element occurred in a list.
Example
#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
list1 = [123,'MIT', 'CIT', 'Yale','UCI','UCI','UCI',123]
print("the list1 is: ", list1)
print("the number of 123 is :",list1.count(123))
print("the number of UCI is: ",list1.count('UCI'))
Output:
the list1 is: [123, 'MIT', 'CIT', 'Yale', 'UCI', 'UCI', 'UCI', 123]
the number of 123 is: 2
the number of UCI is: 3
Syntax
list.count(obj)
Parameters
| Name | Description |
| obj | Obj whose count is to be found. |
Return Value
It returns the number of occurrences an element appears in a list.