How do I find the duplicates in a list and create another list with them?

Question

How can I find the duplicates in a Python list and create another list of the duplicates? The list only contains integers.

Answer 1

Python 3.8 one-liner if you don't care to write your own algorithm or use libraries:

l = [1,2,3,2,1,5,6,5,5,5]

res = [(x, count) for x, g in groupby(sorted(l)) if (count := len(list(g))) > 1]

print(res)

Prints item and count:

[(1, 2), (2, 2), (5, 4)]

groupby takes a grouping function so you can define your groupings in different ways and return additional Tuple fields as needed.

groupby is lazy so it shouldn't be too slow.