Python count function is useful to count the total number of times a substring repeated in a given string. In this section, we discuss how to use the count function in Python Programming to perform counting with example.
Python count Function Syntax
The syntax of the count function in Python Programming Language is
String_Value.count(Sub, Start, End)
- Sub: This argument is required. The Python Count Function looks for this substring inside the String_Value, and if it finds, then it returns the result.
- Start: If you want to count from the middle of a string or at a particular index, you can specify here.
- End: If you want to find up to the middle of a string, or up to a particular index, you can specify here.
This function returns an integer value. For example, If we say, ‘Hell World’.count(‘l’, 0, 7) then it start looking for l inside the ‘Hello World’ and return two because the index position of end value is 7 (i., r)
Python count Function Example
The following set of examples help to understand the string count Function in Python Programming Language.
In this Python example, First, we declared two String variable Str1, Str2, and assigned corresponding values.
The first statement finds the number of times ‘a’ repeated in Str1 string and prints the output.
The following python count statement slice the string Str1 starting at 6 and up to 25. Within the sliced string, it finds the number of times ‘a’ string repeated and prints the output.
For Str5, it slices the string Str1 starting at 6 and up to End (To find the end value we used the python len function). Within the sliced string, Python count the number of times ‘a’ repeated.
Within the last statement Str6, we used the the function directly on String.
Str1 = 'learn Python at tutorial gateway'
Str2 = 'a'
Str3 = Str1.count(Str2)
print("Total Number of a's in String1 = ", Str3)
Str4 = Str1.count(Str2, 6, 25)
print("Total Number of a's in Sliced String1 = ", Str4)
Str5 = Str1.count(Str2, 6, len(Str1))
print("Total Number of a's in Sliced String1 = ", Str5)
# Performing directly
Str6 = 'learn Python at tutorial gateway'.count('a', 0, 60)
print("Total Number of a's in String1 = ", Str6)
Python count function Alternative 2
In the interview perspective, they may ask you to display the letter count without using the built-in method. Here, we use for loop to iterate the characters present in String.
Str1 = 'learn Python at tutorial gateway'
Str2 = 'a'
co = 0
for char in Str1:
if char == Str2:
co = co + 1
print("Total Number of a's in String1 = ", co)
Total Number of a's in String1 = 5In this program, first, We used For Loop to iterate the characters present in Str1
Within the for loop, we used If statement to check whether each of the string characters is equal to Str2 or not. And if it is True, then co value incremented by 1.
The last print statement prints the Output.
The following example is another alternative method to this function.
from collections import Counter
Str1 = 'learn Python at tutorial gateway'
Str2 = 'a'
cn = Counter(Str1)[Str2]
print("Total Number of a's in String1 = ", cn)
Total Number of a's in String1 = 5