Raymond Hettinger wrote: > On May 4, 12:12 pm, Hellnar <dalama...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I am trying to find what algorithm Python uses for the built-in >> str.count function, if it has a name. > > Roughly the same as: > > sum(1 for c in s if c == tgt)
That would be list.count(), I think. OP, the source http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h?revision=77470&view=markup has a reference to http://effbot.org/zone/stringlib.htm Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
