Counting number of occurrences of a character in a Python String

In this tutorial, we will learn how to count the number of occurrences of a character in a string in Python.

Using count() function

To count the number of occurrences of a character in a string, we can use the built-in count() function in Python.

Here is an example, that counts the number of o characters in the following string.

str = 'Learn online from anywhere in the world'

print(str.count('o'))

Output:

3