Count number of occurrences of a given substring in a string

Question

How might I tally/count the occasions a given substring is available inside a string in Python?

For example:

>>> 'foo bar foo'.numberOfOccurrences('foo')

2

Answer 1

You can use string.count(substring), like in:

>>> "abcdabcva".count("ab")

2

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