What is the preferred way to count the number of ocurrences of a certain character in a string?

Question

How do I do this without string.count(), because it is listed as deprecated in Python v2.7.3 documentation?

I am unable to find what I should use instea

Answer 1

sentence = str(input("Write a Sentence: "))
count = 0
for word in sentence:
    if word == " ":
    count = count + 1
print(count+1)