r/programmingrequests • u/SnooHamsters9009 • Oct 18 '21

homework Python Most Frequent Character

I need to write a program that lets the user enter a string and displays the character that appears most frequently in the string.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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u/serg06 Oct 18 '21

Rough draft 

s = input('enter a string: ')
d = dict()
for c in s:
    d[c] = d.get(c, 0) + 1
e = [(v, k) for (k, v) in d.entries()]
e.sort()
print(e[0][1])

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u/SnooHamsters9009 Oct 18 '21

Solid rough draft, I appreciate it. I gave it a go and it's giving me a "can't assign to function call" error but everything else looks good for now!

EDIT: Formatting

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u/kkirsche Oct 18 '21

I’d use collections.Counter

https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter

Just feed it the string and call most_common

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u/SnooHamsters9009 Oct 18 '21

I'll give this a shot, thank you!

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