getting error while using count in string "BANANA" to find "ANA" as substring using str.count() inbuild function of python

Question

when executing the command in python

str="BANANA"
print(str.count("ANA"))

give answer as 1.

but real answer would be 2. how to solve this

It works as intended. From the help of `str.count` Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in string S[start:end] — Chrispresso, Aug 02 '18 at 16:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '18 at 16:55

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It's true that this might be misleading most tutorial sites say that count returns the number of occurences in the string, it should actually say it returns the nnumber of non-overlapping occurences in the string

answered Aug 02 '18 at 16:55

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getting error while using count in string "BANANA" to find "ANA" as substring using str.count() inbuild function of python

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