counting the occurrences of specific terms in a text file, in python

[DjPal]

Say I have a text file containing entries, and I want to count the number of entries which have the word "apple" in them.

I have tried the following code, anyone knows what would help? learning python.

-->

#!/usr/local/bin/python
file = open("C:/Users/xyzl/Desktop/fruit.txt","r") #Open File.
def appleno(fruit):
    res = 0
    
    for (apple) in auth:
        res = res+1
    return res

-->
thank you

[bvdet]

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It would work like this:

f = open(file_name)
total = 0
for line in f:
    if "apple" in line:
        total += 1
f.close()
print total

[RashidSalmanov]

But ur(bvdet) code consider the "apple" term as a unit in each string not depending on the amount. What can we do in order to make a code count all the apples in strings?
Thanks in advance