String count with overlapping occurrences

Question

What\'s the best way to count the number of occurrences of a given string, including overlap in Python? This is one way:

def function(string, str_to_search_f         


        

Answer 1

Here is my edX MIT "find bob"* solution (*find number of "bob" occurences in a string named s), which basicaly counts overlapping occurrences of a given substing:

s = 'azcbobobegghakl'
count = 0

while 'bob' in s:
    count += 1 
    s = s[(s.find('bob') + 2):]

print "Number of times bob occurs is: {}".format(count)