Solution Exrcise 49: count number of times a character appears in string

Exercise 49

Write a Python program as a function that counts the number of times a character appears in a string without using any predefined functions.

Solution

def caracter_count(s , c):
    # initializing counter
    counter = 0
    for x in s:
        if c == x:
            counter = counter + 1
    return counter

# Testing function
s = "python programming"
print("The number of times of appearance of character 'n' in 's' is  = " ,caracter_count(s , 'n'))
# The output is : The number of times of appearance of character 'n' in 's' is  =  2