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Python: Find the most common elements and their counts of a specified text


Write a Python program to find the most common elements and their counts in a specified text.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

# Import the Counter class from the collections module
from collections import Counter

# Create a string 's' containing a sequence of characters
s = 'lkseropewdssafsdfafkpwe'

# Print the original string
print("Original string: " + s)

# Print a message indicating that we are going to find the most common three characters in the string
print("Most common three characters of the said string:")

# Use Counter to count the occurrences of each character in the string 's' and then find the three most common characters
print(Counter(s).most_common(3)) 

Sample Output:

Original string: lkseropewdssafsdfafkpwe
Most common three characters of the said string:
[('s', 4), ('e', 3), ('f', 3)] 

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