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The most_common(~) method within the collections module, returns a list of the most common n elements and their respective counts within a Counter object.
Parameters
1. n | number | optional
Return the top n most common elements in the Counter object.
Return value
A list of the n most common elements and their respective counts. If multiple elements have equal counts, they are returned in the order first encountered.
Examples
To return a new list with two most common elements from my_list:
from collections import Countermy_list = ['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c','c']
occurrences = Counter(my_list) #Initialize Counter objectnew_list = occurrences.most_common(2)print(new_list)
[('c', 3), ('b', 2)]
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Official Python Documentation
https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter.most_common
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