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

Scenario 1: Occurrence of a word in a sentence. eg: str1 = "This is an example and is easy". The occurrence of the word "is". lets str2 = "is"

count = str1.count(str2)

Scenario 2 : Occurrence of pattern in a sentence.

string = "ABCDCDC"
substring = "CDC"

def count_substring(string,sub_string):
    len1 = len(string)
    len2 = len(sub_string)
    j =0
    counter = 0
    while(j < len1):
        if(string[j] == sub_string[0]):
            if(string[j:j+len2] == sub_string):
                counter += 1
        j += 1

    return counter

Thanks!