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alwbtc
alwbtc

Reputation: 29495

How to get statistic of a list of lists in python?

I have a list of lists:

[[1,2], [1,2,4], [1,2,3,4], [4,5,6], [1,9], [1,2,4]]

I would like to get list statistics in following format:

number of lists with 2 elements : 2
number of lists with 3 elements : 3
number of lists with 4 elements : 1

What is the best (most pythonic) way of doing this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2727

Answers (3)

jamylak
jamylak

Reputation: 133694

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> seq = [[1,2], [1,2,4], [1,2,3,4], [4,5,6], [1,9], [1,2,4]]
>>> for k, v in Counter(map(len, seq)).most_common():
        print 'number of lists with {0} elements: {1}'.format(k, v)


number of lists with 3 elements: 3
number of lists with 2 elements: 2
number of lists with 4 elements: 1

Upvotes: 6

djc
djc

Reputation: 11731

for k, v in sorted(collections.Counter(len(i) for i in list_of_lists).iteritems()):
    print 'number of lists with %s elements : %s' % (k, v)

Upvotes: 6

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 310137

I'd use a collections.defaultdict:

d = defaultdict(int)
for lst in lists:
   d[len(lst)] += 1

Upvotes: 6

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