# Most frequent element

Canonical: https://www.wiki.jodisand.me/snippets/python/most_frequent/


Returns the most frequent element in a list.

- Use `set()` to get the unique values in `lst`.
- Use `max()` to find the element that has the most appearances.

```py
def most_frequent(lst):
  return max(set(lst), key = lst.count)
```

```py
most_frequent([1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2]) #2
```