count() to get number of matching items

my_list=['a','b','c','b','a','d']
print("Number of times a appears : ", my_list.count('a'))
print("Number of times b appears : ", my_list.count('b'))
print("Number of times c appears : ", my_list.count('c'))

Number of times a appears :  2
Number of times b appears :  2
Number of times c appears :  1