Python, Print most occurring words or letter from input

Question

I don't know if my question is repeated or not since I couldn't really find the right answer. I wanted to print the most frequent words or numbers on a new line. However, if the frequency are the same then print both words/numbers.

Input: green green green orange orange yellow

Output: green


Input: green green green orange orange orange yellow

Output: green 
        orange


Input: 1 1 2 2 3 3 4

Output: 1
        2
        3


Input: 1 1 1 2 2 3 3

Output: 1

This is a fascinating problem statement. Have you tried to solve it? — Stephen Rauch, Oct 04 '18 at 05:04
Possible duplicate of [How to find most common elements of a list?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3594514/how-to-find-most-common-elements-of-a-list) — Matthew Smith, Oct 04 '18 at 05:06

magegaga.com · Answer 1 · 2018-10-04T05:53:18.520

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can you tell what you have tried? follow snippet may help you a bit

 words = ['green', 'green','green', 'yellow']

 from collections import Counter
 counts = Counter(words)

 top = [k for k, _ in   counts.most_common(list(counts.values()).count(max(counts.values())))]
 print(top)

edited Oct 04 '18 at 05:53

answered Oct 04 '18 at 05:06

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I would replace `top = [k for k, _ in counts.most_common(list(counts.values()).count(max(counts.values())))]` – AGN Gazer Oct 04 '18 at 05:21
@AGNGazer yes i agree, edited it – magegaga.com Oct 04 '18 at 05:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '18 at 05:35

You could also do max with key argument, then list comprehension takes all that has the count of that, because max just takes one:

>>> words = ['green', 'green','green', 'yellow','orange','orange','orange']
>>> list(set([i for i in words if words.count(i) == words.count(max(words,key=words.count))]))
['green', 'orange']
>>>

Python, Print most occurring words or letter from input

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