# Program to return the most frequent element in a list
def most_frequent(List):
return max(set(List), key = List.count)
# Example usage:
List = ['fish', 42, 'apple', 'fish', 'fish', 'cow', 23]
print(most_frequent(List))
--> fish
from collections import Counter
a = [1936, 2401, 2916, 4761, 9216, 9216, 9604, 9801]
c = Counter(a)
print(c.most_common(1)) # the one most common element... 2 would mean the 2 most common
[(9216, 2)] # a set containing the element, and it's count in 'a'