Python Lists - Finding Number of Times a String Occurs

Question

How would I find how many times each string appears in my list?

Say I have the word:

\"General Store\"

that is in my list like 20 t

Answer 1

First use set() to get all unique elements of the list. Then loop over the set to count elements from the list

unique = set(votes)
for item in unique:
    print item
    print votes.count(item)