string.count issue (i'm stupid?)

[Matteo Rattotti]

Hi all,

i've noticed a strange beaviour of string.count:

in my mind this code must work in this way:

str = "a_a_a_a_"
howmuch = str.count("_a_")
print howmuch -> 3

but the count return only 2

Ok this can be fine, but why? The doc string tell that count will
return the number of substring in the master string, if we spoke about
substring i count 3 substring...

Can someone explain me this? And in which way i can count all the
occurrence of a substring in a master string? (yes all occurrence
reusing already counter character if needed)

Thanks a lot

Matteo Rattotti www.rknet.it
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