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

An alternative very close to the accepted answer but using while as the if test instead of including if inside the loop:

def countSubstr(string, sub):
    count = 0
    while sub in string:
        count += 1
        string = string[string.find(sub) + 1:]
    return count;

This avoids while True: and is a little cleaner in my opinion