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

I'm not sure if this is something looked at already, but I thought of this as a solution for a word that is 'disposable':

for i in xrange(len(word)):
if word[:len(term)] == term:
    count += 1
word = word[1:]

print count

Where word is the word you are searching in and term is the term you are looking for