Finding occurrences of a word in a string in python 3

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If you’re going for efficiency:

import re
count = sum(1 for _ in re.finditer(r'\b%s\b' % re.escape(word), input_string))

This doesn’t need to create any intermediate lists (unlike split()) and thus will work efficiently for large input_string values.

It also has the benefit of working correctly with punctuation – it will properly return 1 as the count for the phrase "Mike saw a dog." (whereas an argumentless split() would not). It uses the \b regex flag, which matches on word boundaries (transitions between \w a.k.a [a-zA-Z0-9_] and anything else).

If you need to worry about languages beyond the ASCII character set, you may need to adjust the regex to properly match non-word characters in those languages, but for many applications this would be an overcomplication, and in many other cases setting the unicode and/or locale flags for the regex would suffice.

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