你可能不再需要这个了，但这是我对一个类似问题所做的。(因为评论，它看起来比实际要长。)

itemList = ['hi', 'hi', 'hello', 'bye']

counter = {}
maxItemCount = 0
for item in itemList:
    try:
        # Referencing this will cause a KeyError exception
        # if it doesn't already exist
        counter[item]
        # ... meaning if we get this far it didn't happen so
        # we'll increment
        counter[item] += 1
    except KeyError:
        # If we got a KeyError we need to create the
        # dictionary key
        counter[item] = 1

    # Keep overwriting maxItemCount with the latest number,
    # if it's higher than the existing itemCount
    if counter[item] > maxItemCount:
        maxItemCount = counter[item]
        mostPopularItem = item

print mostPopularItem

这是O(n)解。

mydict   = {}
cnt, itm = 0, ''
for item in reversed(lst):
     mydict[item] = mydict.get(item, 0) + 1
     if mydict[item] >= cnt :
         cnt, itm = mydict[item], item

print itm

(reversed用于确保它返回最低的索引项)

从这里借鉴，这可以在Python 2.7中使用:

from collections import Counter

def Most_Common(lst):
    data = Counter(lst)
    return data.most_common(1)[0][0]

比Alex的解决方案快4-6倍，比newacct提出的一行程序快50倍。

在CPython 3.6+(任何Python 3.7+)上，上面将选择第一个看到的元素。如果你在旧的Python上运行，为了检索列表中第一个出现的元素，你需要进行两次传递来保持顺序:

# Only needed pre-3.6!
def most_common(lst):
    data = Counter(lst)
    return max(lst, key=data.get)

def mostCommonElement(list):
  count = {} // dict holder
  max = 0 // keep track of the count by key
  result = None // holder when count is greater than max
  for i in list:
    if i not in count:
      count[i] = 1
    else:
      count[i] += 1
    if count[i] > max:
      max = count[i]
      result = i
  return result

主要组合(“a”、“b”、“a”、“c”)->“a”

简单的一行解决方案

moc= max([(lst.count(chr),chr) for chr in set(lst)])

它会返回频率最高的元素。

这是一个很简单的解，时间复杂度是线性的

L =['鹅'，'鸭'，'鸭']

def most_common (L):

current_winner = 0
max_repeated = None
for i in L:
    amount_times = L.count(i)
    if amount_times > current_winner:
        current_winner = amount_times
        max_repeated = i

return max_repeated

打印(most_common (L)

“鸭子”

number是列表中重复次数最多的元素吗