word count occurrence 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 count how many times a word appears in a string

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sentence.lower().split().count(word)