You need to be more specific. What is it you want to count?
There is propably better ways to do it, but here is two examples
mylist = ["item1", "item2", "item3"]
mytext = "item1 item2 item3"
#count instance in text
print(mytext.count("item1", 0, len(mytext)))
#count instance in list
counter = 0
for i in mylist:
if i == "item2":
counter += 1
print(counter)
How to count in python?
How can I count in python please help me
You need to be more specific. What is it you want to count?
There is propably better ways to do it, but here is two examples