Using Counter on lists

Counter is a powerful tool for counting, validating, and learning more about the elements within a dataset that is found in the collections module. You pass an iterable (list, set, tuple) or a dictionary to the Counter. You can also use the Counter object similarly to a dictionary with key/value assignment, for example counter[key] = value.

A common usage for Counter is checking data for consistency prior to using it, so let's do just that.

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Data Types in Python

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Exercise instructions

Import the Counter object from collections.
Create a Counter of the penguins list called penguins_sex_counts; use a list comprehension to return the Sex of each penguin to the Counter.
Print the penguins_sex_counts.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the Counter object
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# Create a Counter of the penguins sex using a list comp
penguins_sex_counts = ____

# Print the penguins_sex_counts
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