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Python program to find the most occurring character and its count
In this article, we will learn about the solution and approach to solve the given problem statement.
Problem statement
Given an input string we need to find the most occurring character and its count.
Approach
Create a dictionary using Counter method having strings as keys and their frequencies as values.
Find the maximum occurrence of a character i.e. value and get the index of it.
Now let’s see the implementation below −
Example
from collections import Counter def find(input_): # dictionary wc = Counter(input_) # Finding maximum occurrence s = max(wc.values()) i = wc.values().index(s) print (wc.items()[i]) # Driver program if __name__ == "__main__": input_ = 'Tutorialspoint' find(input_)
Output
(‘t’,3)
All the variables and functions are declared in the global scope as shown below −
Conclusion
In this article, we learnt about the approach to find the most occurring character and its count.
Updated on: 26-Sep-2019
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