Counter

from collections import Counter

fruits = ["apple", "banana", "orange", "apple", "banana", "apple"]
fruit_counter = Counter(fruits)

print(fruit_counter)  # Output: Counter({'apple': 3, 'banana': 2, 'orange': 1})
print(fruit_counter["apple"])  # Output: 3
print(fruit_counter["banana"])  # Output: 2

text = "Hello, world!"
char_counter = Counter(text)

print(char_counter)  # Output: Counter({'l': 3, 'o': 2, 'H': 1, 'e': 1, ',': 1, ' ': 1, 'w': 1, 'r': 1, 'd': 1, '!': 1})
print(char_counter["l"])  # Output: 3
print(char_counter["o"])  # Output: 2