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Finding multiple modes in a tuple list - python

I am new in python and needed some help in finding out the mode of a tuple. However, the code I have right now only displays one mode, what would I need to change to display multiple modes (if the list of numbers has more than 1)

    import itertools
    import operator

    def mode_function2(lst):
       return max(set(lst), key=lst.count)
Solution

  • This works:

    from collections import Counter
def mode_function2(lst):
    counter = Counter(lst)
    _,val = counter.most_common(1)[0]
    return [x for x,y in counter.items() if y == val]

    Below is a demonstration:

    >>> mode_function2([1, 2, 2])
[2]
>>> mode_function2([1, 2, 2, 1])
[1, 2]
>>> mode_function2([1, 2, 3])
[1, 2, 3]
>>>

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