[Tutor] toggle through a list

[bob gailer]

j mercedes wrote:
> Hi, I have problem here...I am writing a program but I am getting 
> stucked at how to solve the mode of a series of numbers...any ideas???

The customary approach is to collect counts of each value in a 
dictionary. Untested code follows:

from collections import defaultdict
def mode(data):
    numdict = defaultdict(int)
    for i in data:
        numdict[data[i]] += 1
    numlist = [(count, num) for num, count in nums.items()]
    numlist.sort()
    print 'The mode is: ', numlist[-1][1]


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