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Author: arshadumrethi

count.py

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+#Write a function to return the number of occurences
+#of a particular item in a list.
+def count(sequence, item):
+  num = 0
+  for i in sequence:
+      if item == i:
+          num += 1
+  return num
+     
+
+print count([1, 2, 1, 1], 1)