I agree the docstring is a bit confusing and could be clarified
as to what's happening
> Can someone explain me this? And in which way i can count all
> the occurrence of a substring in a master string? (yes all
> occurrence reusing already counter character if needed)
You should be able to use something like
s = "a_a_a_a_"
count = len([i for i in range(len(s)) if s.startswith("_a_", i)])
which will count the way you wanted, rather than the currently
existing count() behavior.
-tkc
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