How to find the most common element in a Python list

Question

How can I find the most common element in a given list in Python? Is there any function that I can use?

Answer 1

You can use the max() function to find the most common element in a given list.

Here is an example:

>>> aa = [1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5]

>>> max(aa, key=aa.count)

4