Gerard Flanagan <grflana...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realise that calling this count function with a single argument would > be functionally identical to calling str.count(), yes. But I can imagine > the situation of wanting to find multiple (disjoint) substrings. Is > there a reason for preferring multiple calls to str.count() in such a > case? Or is there a more obvious approach?
No, I totally missed that it was counting disjoint substrings :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list