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Counter: frequencies without a manual counting dictionary

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collections.Counter counts occurrences of hashable values. Counter(['tea', 'tea', 'coffee']) records two occurrences of tea and one of coffee.

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collections.Counter counts occurrences of hashable values. Counter(['tea', 'tea', 'coffee']) records two occurrences of tea and one of coffee. [1]

It helps summarize labels or events after input preparation. Different spellings remain different keys. If the task requires case-insensitive grouping, define normalization before counting while retaining the originals where needed.

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  1. [1] collections — Container datatypes — Python 3.12.15 documentation ↗