How to count the occurrences of an element in a list

How to count the occurrences of an element in a list.

Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to count the occurrences of an element in a list:

Start by defining a list and an element you want to count the occurrences of. Let's say you have a list called myList and an element called targetElement.
Initialize a variable called count to keep track of the occurrences and set it to 0.
Iterate through each element in the list using a loop. For example, you can use a for loop to iterate over each element in myList.
```
for element in myList:
    # Your code goes here
```

Inside the loop, check if the current element matches the target element.

for element in myList:
    if element == targetElement:
        # Your code goes here

If the current element matches the target element, increment the count variable by 1.

for element in myList:
    if element == targetElement:
        count += 1

After the loop completes, the count variable will hold the total number of occurrences of the target element in the list.
```
print("The element", targetElement, "occurs", count, "times in the list.")
```

Here's a complete example in Python:

myList = [1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 5]
targetElement = 2
count = 0

for element in myList:
    if element == targetElement:
        count += 1

print("The element", targetElement, "occurs", count, "times in the list.")

Output:

The element 2 occurs 3 times in the list.

You can also encapsulate this functionality in a function to make it reusable:

def count_occurrences(myList, targetElement):
    count = 0

    for element in myList:
        if element == targetElement:
            count += 1

    return count

myList = [1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 5]
targetElement = 2

occurrences = count_occurrences(myList, targetElement)
print("The element", targetElement, "occurs", occurrences, "times in the list.")

Output:

The element 2 occurs 3 times in the list.

That's it! You now know how to count the occurrences of an element in a list.