Python Tuple count() Method

The count() method is used to count how many times a specific element appears in a tuple.

The syntax of the count() method is:

tuple.count(value)

count() Parameters

The count() method takes only one parameter as argument.

• value - the element to be counted in the tuple

Example 1: How to use count() method in python?

# create a tuple
numbers = (1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 2, 6)

# count number of times 2 appears
count = numbers.count(2)
print(count)

# create a tuple of strings
fruits = ('apple', 'banana', 'apple', 'cherry')

# count number of times 'apple' appears
count = fruits.count('apple')
print(count)

Output:

3
2

Rules of count()

• It returns 0 if the value is not found in the tuple
• The count is case-sensitive for strings
• It returns the exact count of occurrences of the specified value