Peng Yu 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.
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