Master Python: 5-Second Frequency Counts

TIL: Python's collections.Counter makes frequency counting trivial
As developers, we often find ourselves needing to count the frequency of elements in a list or other iterable. I recently stumbled upon Python's collections.Counter class, which makes this task incredibly simple.

Let's compare the traditional approach with the Counter class. Here's an example of how you might count frequencies manually:

fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'apple', 'orange', 'banana', 'banana']
frequency = {}
for fruit in fruits:
    if fruit in frequency:
        frequency[fruit] += 1
    else:
        frequency[fruit] = 1

And here's the equivalent using Counter:

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