Most frequent element

Returns the most frequent element in a list.

  • Use set() to get the unique values in lst.
  • Use max() to find the element that has the most appearances.
def most_frequent(lst):
  return max(set(lst), key = lst.count)
most_frequent([1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2]) #2