How can I find the number of overlapping sequences in a String with Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I learnt today that you could use a running index to fetch the next occurrence of your substring:

string = 'bobobobobobobob' # long string or variable here
count = 0
start = 0
while True:
    index = string.find('bob', start)
    if index >= 0:
        count += 1
        start += 1
    else:
        break
print(count)

Returns 7