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

Risking a downvote because 2+ others have already provided this solution. I even upvoted one of them. But mine is probably the easiest for newbies to understand.

def count_substring(string, sub_string):
    slen  = len(string)
    sslen = len(sub_string)
    range_s = slen - sslen + 1
    count = 0
    for i in range(range_s):
        if (string[i:i+sslen] == sub_string):
            count += 1
    return count