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

This is another example of using str.find() but a lot of the answers make it more complicated than necessary:

def occurrences(text, sub):
    c, n = 0, text.find(sub)
    while n != -1:
        c += 1
        n = text.find(sub, n+1)
    return c

In []:
occurrences('1011101111', '11')

Out[]:
5