How to get a Counter of dictionaries from a list of dictionaries?

groupby_counter_dictionaries.py

import operator
from itertools import groupby

list_of_city_dicts = [
    {"city": "New York", "country": "US"},
    {"city": "San José", "country": "CR"},
    {"city": "New York", "country": "US"},
    {"city": "San José", "country": "CO"},
    {"city": "Puerto Viejo", "country": "CR"},
]

key_func = operator.itemgetter("city", "country")

grouped_dicts = groupby(sorted(list_of_city_dicts, key=key_func))
city_counter = {key_func(keys): len(list(group)) for keys, group in grouped_dicts}


"""
>>> city_counter
{('New York', 'US'): 2,
 ('Puerto Viejo', 'CR'): 1,
 ('San José', 'CO'): 1,
 ('San José', 'CR'): 1}

"""