On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:22:24AM -0700, Julia Kim wrote:

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Hi,

There’s an error with the string method count().

x = ‘AAA’ y = ‘AA’ print(x.count(y))

The output is 1, instead of 2.

Are you proposing that there ought to be a version of count that looks for *overlapping* substrings?

When will this be useful?

"Finding a motif in DNA" http://rosalind.info/problems/subs/ This is possible with re.find, re.finditer, re.findall, regex.findall(, overlapped=True), sliding window https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2970520/string-count-with-overlapping-oc... n-grams can be by indices or by value. count = len(indices) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(computer_science)#String_processing_al... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_pattern_mining

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Regular expressions are not just "an order of magnitude better"—they're asymptotically faster. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt_algorithm for a non-regular-expression algorithm. On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 5:45:20 AM UTC-4, Jacco van Dorp wrote:

or build it yourself...

def str_count(string, sub): c = 0 for c in range(len(string)-len(sub)): if string[c:].startswith(sub): c += 1 return c

(probably some optimizations possible...)

Or in one line with a generator expression: def str_count(string, sub): return sum(string[c:].startswith(sub) for c in range(len(string)-len(sub)))

regular expressions would probably be at least an order of magnitude better in speed, if it's a bottleneck to you. But pure python implementation for this is a lot easier than it would be for the current string.count().

2018-04-26 8:57 GMT+02:00 Wes Turner javascript:>:

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On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Steven D'Aprano

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:22:24AM -0700, Julia Kim wrote:

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Hi,

There’s an error with the string method count().

x = ‘AAA’ y = ‘AA’ print(x.count(y))

The output is 1, instead of 2.

Are you proposing that there ought to be a version of count that looks for *overlapping* substrings?

When will this be useful?

"Finding a motif in DNA" http://rosalind.info/problems/subs/

This is possible with re.find, re.finditer, re.findall, regex.findall(, overlapped=True), sliding window

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2970520/string-count-with-overlapping-oc...

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n-grams can be by indices or by value. count = len(indices) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#Examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(computer_science)#String_processing_al...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_pattern_mining

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If this was for a school assignment, I'd probably go to edit distance and fuzzy string match next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String-to-string_correction_problem - https://pypi.org/search/?q=Levenshtein - https://pypi.org/project/textdistance/ As a bioinformatics program, this is a bit like CRISPR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR BioPython Seq has a count_overlap method with a BSD 3-Clause LICENSE: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/LICENSE.rst Can it be made faster with e.g. itertools.count and a generator comprehension? - Bio.Seq.Seq.count_overlap() http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/api/Bio.Seq.Seq-class.html#count_overlap Are there any changes or features necessary in core Python in order to finish this application? If not, the python-tutor mailing list or r/learnpython are set up to handle this sort of thing. It may or may not be appropriate for core Python to support all of these string algorithms: http://rosalind.info/problems/topics/string-algorithms/ On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Julia Kim wrote:

There are two ‘AA’ in ‘AAA’, one starting from 0 and the other starting from 1.

If ‘AA’ starting from 0 is deleted and inserted with ‘BANAN’, ‘AAA’ becomes ‘BANANA ‘.

If ‘AA’ starting from 1 is deleted and inserted with ‘PPLE’, ‘AAA’ becomes ‘APPLE’.

Depending on which one is chosen, ‘AAA’ can be edited to ‘BANANA’ or ‘APPLE ‘, two different results.

I wrote a program which edits a part of a text. If the part to be edited occurs more than once, it presents the positions and asks the user to choose which one to be edited.

I tried with different algorithms. Best one so far would be using just find() and collecting the results in a list.

On Apr 25, 2018, at 11:57 PM, Wes Turner wrote:

On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:22:24AM -0700, Julia Kim wrote:

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Hi,

There’s an error with the string method count().

x = ‘AAA’ y = ‘AA’ print(x.count(y))

The output is 1, instead of 2.

Are you proposing that there ought to be a version of count that looks for *overlapping* substrings?

When will this be useful?

"Finding a motif in DNA" http://rosalind.info/problems/subs/

This is possible with re.find, re.finditer, re.findall, regex.findall(, overlapped=True), sliding window https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2970520/string-count-with-overlapping- occurrences

n-grams can be by indices or by value. count = len(indices) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#Examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(computer_science)# String_processing_algorithms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_pattern_mining

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