# coding:utf8
from collections import Counter
a = [['software', 'foundation'], ['of', 'the'], ['the', 'python'], ['software', 'foundation'],['of', 'the'], ['software', 'foundation']]
print Counter(str(i) for i in a)   # 以字典形式返回统计结果
print Counter(str(i) for i in a).items()  # 以列表形式返回统计结果

# -------------- map方法 --------
print Counter(map(str, a))   # 以字典形式返回统计结果
print Counter(map(str, a)).items()  # 以列表形式返回统计结果

from collections import Counter
data = [['software', 'foundation'], ['of', 'the'], ['the', 'python'], ['software', 'foundation'],['of', 'the'], ['software', 'foundation']]
cnt = Counter(map(tuple, data))
print(list(cnt.items()))

from itertools import groupby
data = ....
print [(k, len(list(g)))for k, g in groupby(sorted(data))]