Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > That's not the only case though. What do you expect to be returned for > an input of ["eggs", "beans", "beans", "eggs", "spam"] ? > > Assuming you want *a* mode value, and any one will do (e.g. any of > "spam", "eggs" or "beans" is okay), I'd write it this way as a first > guess: > > >>> foo = ["spam", "eggs", "spam", "spam", "spam", "beans", "eggs"] > >>> counts = [(foo.count(val), val) for val in set(foo)] > >>> counts > [(2, 'eggs'), (1, 'beans'), (4, 'spam')] > >>> sorted(counts)[-1] > (4, 'spam') > >>> sorted(counts)[-1][1] > 'spam'
A bit more directly: >>> foo = ["spam", "eggs", "spam", "spam", "spam", "beans", "eggs"] >>> max(foo, key=foo.count) 'spam' Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
