interpreted as in slice notation.
If *sub* is empty, returns the number of empty strings between characters
- which is the length of the string plus one.
-
+ which is the length of the string plus one. For example::
+
+ >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.count('spam')
+ 3
+ >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.count('spam', 5)
+ 2
+ >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.count('spam', 5, 10)
+ 1
+ >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.count('eggs')
+ 0
+ >>> 'spam, spam, spam'.count('')
+ 17
.. method:: str.encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")