Python .count()

The .count() method finds the number of times the specified substring occurs within a given string. This method is case-sensitive.

Syntax

The .count() method is called on a string using the following syntax:

string.count(substring, start=..., end=...)

• substring is the substring to search for.
• start and end are optional and specify the search’s starting and end positions.

Note: When not specified, start defaults to 0 and end defaults to len(string), which means the search will be performed on the whole string.

Example

The following example uses .count() to find the number of times li appears in the string:

songTitle = "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
print(songTitle.count("li"))

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The output is:

3

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Codebyte Example

The codebyte example below is runnable and counts the number of times “at” is in the string starting at position 2 and ending at position 7:

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