I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. The result is 0. I'm trying to find the occurrence of a word in a list.

def count(sequence,item):
    total=0 #counter

    if type(sequence)==list or dict: #the if works for a list or list of lists
        for element in sequence:
            if element ==item:
                total =1         
    else: #the else works for strings, where item is a word             
        sequence=sequence.replace(',','') #remove commas
        sequence=sequence.replace('.','') #remove periods
        sequence=sequence.lower() #make lowercase
        
        for word in sequence.split():  #will iterate through words instead of characters
            if word==item:
                total =1
    return total
    

print (count(["Hello how are you today.","today you are"], "you"))

CodePudding user response：

As mentioned in my comment, if type(sequence)==list or dict will always evaluate to true since dict is truthy. I think what you're looking for here is if type(sequence) == list or type(sequence) == dict

All that being said you can just use the built in function count like so:

x = ["Hello how are you today.","today you are"]
search_word = 'you'
total = 0
for i in x:
    total  = i.split().count(search_word)
print(f'Got tota: {total}')

CodePudding user response：

def wordInSentence(searchWord, sentence):
    sentence=sentence.replace(',','') #remove commas
    sentence=sentence.replace('.','') #remove periods
    sentence=sentence.lower() #make lowercase

    for word in sentence.split():  #will iterate through words instead of characters
        if word==searchWord:

def count(sequence,item):
    total=0 #counter

    if type(sequence)==list or type(sequence)==dict: #the if works for a list or list of lists
        for element in sequence:
            if wordInSentence(element, item):
                total =1         
    else: #the else works for strings, where item is a word             
        if (wordInSentence(sequence, item):
            total =1
    return total

print (count(["Hello how are you today.","today you are"], "you"))