On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example, the long string is 'abcabc' and the given string is > 'abc', then 'abc' appears 2 times in 'abcabc'. Currently, I am calling > 'find()' multiple times to figure out how many times a given string > appears in a long string. I'm wondering if there is a function in > python which can directly return this information. > >>> 'abcabc'.count('abc') 2 >>> print ''.count.__doc__ S.count(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in string S[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. HTH, --S
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