how to count number of spacing in python code example

Example 1: count number of spaces in string python

>>> a = "My test string"
>>> a.count(' ')
2

Example 2: number of spaes pythopn

# '.isspace() ' return True of False for if a character is a space

word = "How many spaces"
num = 0
for i in word:
  if(i.isspace() == True):
    num += 1
print(num) #Output: '2'