Question

I’ve dictionary which contains values like this
{a:3,b:9,c:88,d:3}
I want to calculate how many times particular number appears in above dictionary.
For example in above dictionary 3 appears twice in dictionary
Please help to write python script

Answer 1

You should use collections.Counter:

>>> from collections import Counter
>>> d = {'a':3, 'b':9, 'c':88, 'd': 3}
>>> Counter(d.values()).most_common()
[(3, 2), (88, 1), (9, 1)]