How to count word “test” in file on Python?

Question

I have a file consists of many strings. Looks like

sdfsdf sdfsdfsdf sdfsdfsdf test gggg uff test test fffffffff sdgsdgsdgsdg sdgsdgsdgsdg uuuttt 5

Answer 1

If you want to find all matches:

with open("file") as f:
    numtest = f.read().count("test")

If you want to find only word matches:

with open("file") as f:
    numtest = f.read().split().count("test")