[Tutor] need help with python for counter

[Brandon Merritt]

I feel silly, but I'm having the darndest time trying to figure out why
this for counter won't work. I know that there is the count method for the
string class, but I was just trying to do it the syntactical way to prove
myself that I know the very basics. As of right now, my script is just
returning 1 or 0, even if I very clearly make sure that I specify at least
4 instances of the digit in my number string:

number = raw_input('Enter a 7-unit number: ')

digit = raw_input('Enter a single digit: ')

for i in number:
    count = 0
    if i == digit:
        count += 1
    else:
        count = 0

print count

Thanks,
Brandon


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