occurrence of a given word in a text python code example

Example 1: how to count the occurrence of a word in string python

# define string
string = "Python is awesome, isn't it?"
substring = "is"

count = string.count(substring)

# print count
print("The count is:", count)

Example 2: python search first occurrence in string

s = "the dude is a cool dude"
s.find('dude') # returns 4 - the first index of the first match in the string