Method for finding the count of unique elements in a list. This will work only in python versions 2.7 and above

ListCountMethod1.py

__author__ = 'Amal G Jose'

from collections import Counter

data_list = ['apple', 'apple', 'orange', 'mango', 'apple', 'grapes', 'banana', 'banana']
count = Counter(data_list)
print count.items()

print "Count of apple : ", count['apple']
print "Count of orange : ", count['orange']
print "Count of banana : ", count['banana']
print "Count of grapes : ", count['grapes']
print "Count of mango : ", count['mango']