Is there any efficient way in python to count the times an array of numbers is between certain intervals? the number of intervals i will be using may get quite large like: mylist = [4,4,1,18,2,15,6,14,2,16,2,17,12,3,12,4,15,5,17] some function(mylist, startpoints): # startpoints = [0,10,20] count values in range [0,9] count values in range [10-19] output = [9,10]