Q#50: Function to count tuple elements

Suppose you are given a tuple containing ints and strings. Write a Python function to return the # of times a given element, n, appears in the tuple.

For example, given the tuple below, where n=3, your function should return 4, since 3 appears 4 times in the tuple.

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ANSWER

This is a simple question that tests your basic programming skills in Python.

We need to create a function that takes in a tuple and an element n and simply iterate over the tuple while having a variable track the number of times our iterator matches the target element.

def tuple_count(tup, n):
   cnt = 0
   for i in tup:
      if i == n:
         cnt+=1
   return cnt