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

this was a while ago so i'm not sure if you still need help but other people might so i'm here. if you're allowed to use matplotlib i think there's a much simpler solution!

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

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.hist(a) #gives you a histogram of your array 'a'
plt.show() #finishes out the plot

this should get you a nice histogram! there are also more edits you can do to clean up the graph if you'd like