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New Arrivals-Princess Polly USA Ho Schedules ietz - Computational Reasoning 1 Fall 2019/ INFO1201-F19 /21 October -27 October / Homework 5 SUBMISSION Given a string aString and a character letterToFind, count the number of times letter ToFind occurs in the string and return that number. For example given aString "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" letterToFind = "a" your function would return Use the following function header: def returnLetterCount (aString, letterToFind) Answer: (penalty regime: 0 6) 1 T XW 477

Answer 1

# The definition of the function

def returnLetterCount(aString,letterToFind):

    # We keep a track for counting the number of occurences of lettertofind

    count=0

    for character in aString:

        # If the character is equal to the lettertofind we increment count by 1

        if character==letterToFind:

            count+=1

    return count

print(returnLetterCount("ababa","a"))

print(returnLetterCount("sasabbbbbcccccrererere","s"))

print(returnLetterCount("qwerty","q"))

print(returnLetterCount("apple","s"))

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