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Exercise

Finding most common elements

Another powerful usage of Counter is finding the most common elements in a list. This can be done with the .most_common() method.

Practice using this now to find the most common species in a penguins list.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the Counter object from collections.
  • Create a Counter of the penguins list called penguins_species_counts; use a list comprehension to return the Species of each penguin to the Counter.
  • Print the three most common species counts.