Using a dictionary to count the items in a list [duplicate]

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in 2.7 and 3.1 there is special Counter dict for this purpose.

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> Counter(['apple','red','apple','red','red','pear'])
Counter({'red': 3, 'apple': 2, 'pear': 1})

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