# Count occurrences

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Counts the occurrences of a value in a list.

- Use `list.count()` to count the number of occurrences of `val` in `lst`.

```py
def count_occurrences(lst, val):
  return lst.count(val)
```

```py
count_occurrences([1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3], 1) # 3
```