Count occurrances of a word before another phrase in python 3

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I want to count the number of times \n appears in string (Student Copy)\nfor\nspecial school\n...Shaping the Future\n408,) before the phrase Shaping the Future. Is there a way to do it without splitting the string?

Output in this case should be 3

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '18 at 11:25

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You can slice the string up until your substring of interest, and then use count

s = """(Student Copy)\nfor\nspecial school\n...Shaping the Future\n408,)""" 
s[:s.index("Shaping the Future")].count('\n')

answered Jul 04 '18 at 11:25

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