How to make a histogram from a list of strings in Python?

Question

I have a list of strings:

a = [\'a\', \'a\', \'a\', \'a\', \'b\', \'b\', \'c\', \'c\', \'c\', \'d\', \'e\', \'e\', \'e\', \'e\', \'e\']

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Answer 1

Check out matplotlib.pyplot.bar. There is also numpy.histogram which is more flexible if you want wider bins.