Count the number of occurrences of a character in a string

by

str.count(sub[, start[, end]])

Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in the range [start, end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

>>> sentence="Mary had a little lamb"
>>> sentence.count('a')
4

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