Count the duplicates in a list of tuples

Question

I have a list of tuples: a = [(1,2),(1,4),(1,2),(6,7),(2,9)] I want to check if one of the individual elements of each tuple matches the same position/element i

Answer 1

You can make count_map, and store the count of each tuple as the value.

>>> count_map = {}
>>> for t in a:
...     count_map[t] = count_map.get(t, 0)  +1
... 
>>> count_map
{(1, 2): 2, (6, 7): 1, (2, 9): 1, (1, 4): 1}