In python, I'm trying to count each element in a list using a for loop, but it returns the element occurrence n many times

Question

This function returns the element occurrence n many times:

def cold_compress():
    l = int(input())
    inp_list = []
    num_list = []
    for lines in range(l):
        b = input()
        inp_list.append(b)
        print(b)

    for item in inp_list:
        for x in item:
            print(item.count(x))

For example: if my input is:

eeewwww

33jjji

...it will output:

3

3

3

4

4

4

4

2

2

3

3

3

1

How do I avoid this?

Answer 1

You can use Counter() to count the elements inside a list

Sample code:

from collections import Counter
listr = ["one","two","three","three","three","three",]

print(dict(Counter(listr)))

OUTPUT

{'one': 1, 'two': 1, 'three': 4}

Implementing the Counter() in your code:

from collections import Counter

def cold_compress():
    listr = list(input())
    print(dict(Counter(listr)))

cold_compress()