Creating a counter

[Shiva]

Hi,

I am trying to search a string through files in a directory - however while
Python script works on it and writes a log - I want to present the user with
count of number of strings found. So it should increment for each string found.

How do I implement it?

If I use a print() within a if condition statement - and execute the script
in terminal - for each find, the print() prints in new line instead of a
constantly incrementing counter.

Thanks,
Shiva