Count number of occurrences of a given substring in a string

Question

How can I count the number of times a given substring is present within a string in Python?

For example:

>>> \'foo bar foo\'.numberOfOccurre         


        

Answer 1

Depending what you really mean, I propose the following solutions:

1. You mean a list of space separated sub-strings and want to know what is the sub-string position number among all sub-strings:

   s = 'sub1 sub2 sub3'
   s.split().index('sub2')
   >>> 1
   

2. You mean the char-position of the sub-string in the string:

   s.find('sub2')
   >>> 5
   

3. You mean the (non-overlapping) counts of appearance of a su-bstring:

   s.count('sub2')
   >>> 1
   s.count('sub')
   >>> 3