序列中出现次数最多的元素

找出哪个单词出现频率最高

words = [
    'look', 'into', 'my', 'eyes', 'look', 'into', 'my', 'eyes',
    'the', 'eyes', 'the', 'eyes', 'the', 'eyes', 'not', 'around', 'the',
    'eyes', "don't", 'look', 'around', 'the', 'eyes', 'look', 'into',
    'my', 'eyes', "you're", 'under'
]
from collections import Counter
word_counts = Counter(words)
# 出现频率最高的3个单词
top_three = word_counts.most_common(3)
print(top_three)
# Outputs [('eyes', 8), ('the', 5), ('look', 4)]

word_counts['not']
# 1
word_counts['eyes']
# 8

增加计数

作为输入，Counter 对象可以接受任意的由可哈希（hashable）元素构成的序列对象。 在底层实现上，一个 Counter对象就是一个字典，将元素映射到它出现的次数上。比如：

>>> morewords = ['why','are','you','not','looking','in','my','eyes']
>>> for word in morewords:
...     word_counts[word] += 1
...
>>> word_counts['eyes']
9
>>>

>>> word_counts.update(morewords)
>>>

数学运算操作

>>> a = Counter(words)
>>> b = Counter(morewords)
>>> a
Counter({'eyes': 8, 'the': 5, 'look': 4, 'into': 3, 'my': 3, 'around': 2,
"you're": 1, "don't": 1, 'under': 1, 'not': 1})
>>> b
Counter({'eyes': 1, 'looking': 1, 'are': 1, 'in': 1, 'not': 1, 'you': 1,
'my': 1, 'why': 1})
>>> # Combine counts
>>> c = a + b
>>> c
Counter({'eyes': 9, 'the': 5, 'look': 4, 'my': 4, 'into': 3, 'not': 2,
'around': 2, "you're": 1, "don't": 1, 'in': 1, 'why': 1,
'looking': 1, 'are': 1, 'under': 1, 'you': 1})
>>> # Subtract counts
>>> d = a - b
>>> d
Counter({'eyes': 7, 'the': 5, 'look': 4, 'into': 3, 'my': 2, 'around': 2,
"you're": 1, "don't": 1, 'under': 1})
>>>

参考：
https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter
http://python3-cookbook.readthedocs.io/zh_CN/latest/c01/p12_determine_most_freqently_items_in_seq.html