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occurences of substring in a String python

python program to get a String and Substring and count the occurrence of substring in string.

Sample Input 1 :

entertainment en

Sample  Output 1 :

2

Program or Solution

					    
							
s1=input("Enter a String:")
s2=input("Enter Substring:")
count=0
for i in range(0,len(s1)-len(s2)+1):
    j=0
    b=0
    if(s1[i]==s2[j]):
        k=i
        while(j<len(s2)):
            if(s1[k]!=s2[j]):
                b=1
                break
            j=j+1
            k=k+1
        if(b==0):
            count+=1
print(count)

            
            
				

					    
					

Program Explanation

check whether first character of sub string is equal to any character in string.

If it is equal, then check remaining characters are equal to the characters in substring.

else move to next character.