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

def count_substring(string, sub_string):
    counter = 0
    for i in range(len(string)):
        if string[i:].startswith(sub_string):
        counter = counter + 1
    return counter

Above code simply loops throughout the string once and keeps checking if any string is starting with the particular substring that is being counted.