Is count supposed to still work?
Tim Peters
tim.one at comcast.net
Fri Jul 12 16:56:19 EDT 2002
[David LeBlanc]
> Whether or not you explicitly import string,
> count(mystring, substring)
> isn't working ("NameError: global name 'count' is not defined") (N.B. this
> statement is in a method of a class),
Python has never had a builtin function named "count", so I don't see how it
ever could have worked. The string module did and still does export a
function named count, but you have to import it first if you want to use it
as a function.
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