String count with overlapping occurrences

Question

What\'s the best way to count the number of occurrences of a given string, including overlap in Python? This is one way:

def function(string, str_to_search_f         


        

Answer 1

My answer, to the bob question on the course:

s = 'azcbobobegghaklbob'
total = 0
for i in range(len(s)-2):
    if s[i:i+3] == 'bob':
        total += 1
print 'number of times bob occurs is: ', total