"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> How can I find out the modal value in an array. That is the value
> which occurs maximum time in the sequence ..
>
> e.g. if my array has values like [2,3,2,2,2,4,2,2] definitely the
> maximum time 2 occurs in the array. so this function should be able to
> return 2 as a result ..
That's not the only case though. What do you expect to be returned for
an input of ["eggs", "beans", "beans", "eggs", "spam"] ?
Assuming you want *a* mode value, and any one will do (e.g. any of
"spam", "eggs" or "beans" is okay), I'd write it this way as a first
guess:
>>> foo = ["spam", "eggs", "spam", "spam", "spam", "beans", "eggs"]
>>> counts = [(foo.count(val), val) for val in set(foo)]
>>> counts
[(2, 'eggs'), (1, 'beans'), (4, 'spam')]
>>> sorted(counts)[-1]
(4, 'spam')
>>> sorted(counts)[-1][1]
'spam'
>>> foo = ["eggs", "beans", "beans", "eggs", "spam"]
>>> counts = [(foo.count(val), val) for val in set(foo)]
>>> sorted(counts)[-1][1]
'eggs'
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