Is there a command that returns the number of substrings in a string?

[Gerard Flanagan]

alex23 wrote:
> Gerard Flanagan <grflana... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> def count(text, *args):
> 
> Other than the ability to handle multiple substrings, you do realise
> you've effectively duplicated str.count()?

I realise that calling this count function with a single argument would 
be functionally identical to calling str.count(), yes. But I can imagine 
the situation of wanting to find multiple (disjoint) substrings. Is 
there a reason for preferring multiple calls to str.count() in such a 
case? Or is there a more obvious approach?

 > Gerard Flanagan <grflana... at gmail.com> wrote:
 > re.findall?

Forget that, that was stupid.