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

j = 0
    while i < len(string):
        sub_string_out = string[i:len(sub_string)+j]
        if sub_string == sub_string_out:
            count += 1
        i += 1
        j += 1
    return count