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

For overlapping count we can use use:

def count_substring(string, sub_string):
    count=0
    beg=0
    while(string.find(sub_string,beg)!=-1) :
        count=count+1
        beg=string.find(sub_string,beg)
        beg=beg+1
    return count

For non-overlapping case we can use count() function:

string.count(sub_string)