count unique values in python

pd.value_counts(df.Account_Type)

Gold        3
Platinum    1
Name: Account_Type, dtype: int64

df.loc[df['mID']=='A','hID'].agg(['nunique','count','size'])

len(set(["word1", "word1", "word2", "word3"]))
# set is like a list but it removes duplicates
# len counts the number of things inside the set

words = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a']
unique_words = set(words)             # == set(['a', 'b', 'c'])
unique_word_count = len(unique_words) # == 3

aa="XXYYYSBAA"
bb=dict(zip(list(aa),[list(aa).count(i) for i in list(aa)]))
print(bb)
# output:
# {'X': 2, 'Y': 3, 'S': 1, 'B': 1, 'A': 2}