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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)

count characters in string python

>>> sentence = 'Mary had a little lamb'
>>> sentence.count('a')
4