I'm working on zybook labs here is 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.

My codes works only in half way here is code:

user_input = input() 
words_list = user_input.split() # to put user input into list

word = words_list[0] # to take character for counting 
new_list = words_list.pop(1) # to make new list without character for count

count = new_list.count(word) # count character in new_list

print(count)

my code works for inputs: n Monday, z Today is Monday. It doesn't work for inputs: n It's a sunny day, t this is a sentence with many t's

I have no idea why it doesn't work for other inputs.

CodePudding user response：

When you do this:

new_list = words_list.pop(1)

That takes the second word in the list and stores it into new_list. The rest of the words are still in words_list, but you don't check them.

And actually, you don't need to split this at all.

user_input = input()
target = user_input[0]
count = user_input[2:].count(target)

CodePudding user response：

user_input = input() 
words_list = user_input.split(" ", 1) # to put user input into list

word = words_list[0] # to take character for counting 
new_list = words_list.pop(1) # to make new list without character for count

count = new_list.count(word) # count character in new_list

print(count)

See if it solves the problem