just needing help here

Question

Write a program whose input is a string which contains a character and a phrase, and whose output indicates the number of times the character appears in the phrase.

Ex: If the input is:

n Monday

the output is:

1

Ex: If the input is:

z Today is Monday

the output is:

0

Ex: If the input is:

n It's a sunny day

the output is:

2

Case matters.

Ex: If the input is:

n Nobody

the output is:

0

n is different than N.

Answer 1

You can do this with the string.find() method in Python. It returns the index of a substring (in this case a character). If the character isn't found it returns -1.

>>> 'nobody'.find('n')

0

>>> 'nobody'.find('N')

-1

You'll need to create a substring of the input line to begin with. You can do this with slicing, e.g.

>>> s='n Monday'

>>> s[2:]

'Monday'

>>> s[0:1]

'n'