# Basic syntax:
dict_of_counts = {item:your_list.count(item) for item in your_list}
# Example usage:
your_list = ["a", "b", "a", "c", "c", "a", "c"]
dict_of_counts = {item:your_list.count(item) for item in your_list}
print(dict_of_counts)
--> {'a': 3, 'b': 1, 'c': 3}
>>> from collections import Counter
>>> z = ['blue', 'red', 'blue', 'yellow', 'blue', 'red']
>>> Counter(z)
Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'yellow': 1})
[1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 4, 1].count(1)
# result: 3