Finding the frequency of element Frequency of elements in an array using Python

Frequency of elements in an array in Python

Frequency of Elements in an Array in Python

Here, in this page we will discuss the program to count the frequency of elements in an array in python programming language. We are given with an array and need to print each element along its frequency.

Methods Discussed are :

  • Method 1 : Naive way using extra space.
  • Method 2 : Naive way without using extra space.
  • Method 3 : Using Sorting
  • Method 4 : Using hash Map

Let’s discuss each method one by one,

Method 1 :

In this method we will count the frequency of each elements using two for loops.

  • To check the status of visited elements create a array of size n.
  • Run a loop from index 0 to n and check if (visited[i]==1) then skip that element.
  • Otherwise create a variable count = 1 to keep the count of frequency.
  • Run a loop from index i+1 to n
  • Check if(arr[i]==arr[j]), then increment the count by 1 and set visited[j]=1.
  • After complete iteration of for loop print element along with value of count.

Time and Space Complexity :

  • Time Complexity : O(n2)
  • Space Complexity : O(n)

Method 1 : Code in Python

Run
# Python 3 program to count frequencies
# of array items
def countFreq(arr, n):

   # Mark all array elements as not visited
   visited = [False for i in range(n)]

   # Traverse through array elements
   # and count frequencies
   for i in range(n):

     # Skip this element if already
     # processed
     if (visited[i] == True):
        continue

     # Count frequency
     count = 1
     for j in range(i + 1, n, 1):
        if (arr[i] == arr[j]):
          visited[j] = True
          count += 1

     print(arr[i], count)

# Driver Code
arr = [10, 30, 10, 20, 10, 20, 30, 10]
n = len(arr)
countFreq(arr, n)

Output

10 4
30 2
20 2

Method 2 :

In this method we will use the naive way to find the frequency of elements in the given integer array without using any extra space.

Method 2 : Code in python

Run
# Time Complexity : O(n^2)
# Space Complexity : O(1)

def countFrequency(arr, size):

    for i in range(0, size):
        flag = False
        count = 0

        for j in range(i+1, size):
            if arr[i] == arr[j]:
                flag = True
                break

        # The continue keyword is used to end the current iteration 
        # in a for loop (or a while loop), and continues to the next iteration.
        if flag == True:
            continue

        for j in range(0, i+1):
            if arr[i] == arr[j]:
                count += 1

        print("{0}: {1}".format(arr[i], count))


# Driver Code
arr = [5, 8, 5, 7, 8, 10]
n = len(arr)
countFrequency(arr, n)

Output

5 : 2
7 : 1
8 : 2
10 : 1

Method 3 :

In this method we will sort the array then, count the frequency of the elements.

Time and Space Complexity :

  • Time Complexity : O(nlogn)
  • Space Complexity : O(1)

Method 3 : Code in Python

Run
# Time Complexity : O(n log n) + O(n) = O(n logn)
# Space Complexity : O(1)

def countDistinct(arr, n):
    arr.sort()

    # Traverse the sorted array
    i = 0
    while i < n:
        count = 1

        # Move the index ahead whenever
        # you encounter  duplicates
        while i < n - 1 and arr[i] == arr[i + 1]:
            i += 1
            count +=1

        print("{0}: {1}".format(arr[i], count))
        i += 1


# Driver Code
arr = [5, 8, 5, 7, 8, 10]
n = len(arr)
countDistinct(arr, n)

Output

5 : 2
7 : 1
8 : 2
10 : 1

Method 4 :

In this method we will count use hash-map to count the frequency of each elements.

  • Declare a dictionary dict().
  • Start iterating over the entire array
  • If element is present in map, then increase the value of frequency by 1.
  • Otherwise, insert that element in map.
  • After complete iteration over array, start traversing map and print the key-value pair.

Time and Space Complexity :

  • Time Complexity : O(n)
  • Space Complexity : O(n)
Frequency of element

Method 4 : Code in Python

def countFreq(arr, n):

    mp = dict()

    # Traverse through array elements
    # and count frequencies

    for i in range(n):
        if arr[i] in mp.keys():
            mp[arr[i]] += 1
        else:
            mp[arr[i]] = 1

           
    # Traverse through map and print
    # frequencies

    for x in mp:
        print(x, " ", mp[x])
# Driver Code 

arr = [10, 30, 10, 20, 10, 20, 30, 10] 
n = len(arr) 
countFreq(arr, n)

Output

10 4
20 2
30 2

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26 comments on “Finding the frequency of element Frequency of elements in an array using Python”


  • Shivanshu

    n=int(input())
    arr=[int(input()) for x in range(n)]
    sr=set(arr)
    for i in sr:
    cou=arr.count(i)
    print(i,”occurs”,cou,”times”)


  • sandesh

    n=list(map(int,input(‘enter the array’).split()))
    b=[]
    for i in n:
    ___if i not in b:
    _______b.append(i)
    _______print(i,’repeats’,n.count(i), ‘times’)


  • Geetha

    from collections import Counter
    S=list(map(int,input().split()))
    print(Counter(S))


  • Arun

    from array import *
    x=array(“i”,map(int,input(“enter the value :”).split()))
    x1=set(x)
    x2=list(x1)
    for i in range(len(x2)):
    print(x2[i],” occurs “,x.count(x2[i]),” time “)


  • Syed

    python2.7
    n=[int(x) for x in raw_input().split()]
    for i in n:
    print(“{} repeated {} times”.format(i,n.count(i)))


  • Shaik

    l=list(map(int,input(‘enter elements’).split()))
    s=list(set(l))
    print(s)
    d={}
    for x in l:
    if x in s:
    d[x]=d.get(x,0)+1
    for k,v in sorted(d.items()):
    print(k,’occurs’,v,’times’)


  • Shaik

    l=list(map(int,input(‘enter elements’).split()))
    a=[1,2,3,4,5]
    d={}
    for x in l:
    if x in a:
    d[x]=d.get(x,0)+1
    for k,v in sorted(d.items()):
    print(k,’occurs’,v,’times’)


  • Afaque

    a=list(map(int,input(“Enter the array :”).split()))
    b=list(set(a))
    for i in b:
    print(f'{i} is found {a.count(i)} times’)


  • Rakesh gowda

    n = int(input(‘enter the size of an array’))
    print(“enter the elements\n”)
    lst = {}
    for i in range(n):
    n = int(input())
    if n not in lst.keys():
    lst[n] = 1
    else:
    lst[n] = lst[n] + 1

    for i in lst:
    print(‘The occurence of ‘, i , ‘is’ , lst[i])


  • hrushikesh

    list= [1,2,3,12,3,4,55,5,5,6,7,2,3,4,4,5,6,7,7,8]
    freq = {}
    for value in list:
    if value in freq:
    val = freq[value]
    val += 1
    freq[value] = val
    else:
    freq[value] = 1

    for value in freq:
    print(‘The occurrence of’,value,’is’,freq[value])


  • Akshita

    # importing the collections module
    import collections
    n=int(input(“size”))
    # intializing the arr
    arr=[]
    for i in range(n):
    t=int(input(“value”))
    arr.append(t)
    # getting the elements frequencies using Counter class
    elements_count = collections.Counter(arr)
    # printing the element and the frequency
    for key, value in elements_count.items():
    print(“\n {} occurs {} time(s)”.format(key,value))