How to count Consecutive Maximum Occurrence of a word in an item of a list in Python

Question

I'm trying to implement a code that will count the longest run of a word in an item of a list

    for_example = ['smaplakidfsmapsmapsmapuarebeautiful']

so in this example, it will be 3 because smap was repeated 3 times so is there is a code that does this task for me no matter what the word is.

Answer 1

EDIT: If you have a list of items, you can call the function like this:

[countMaxConsecutiveOccurences(item, 'smap') for item in items]

def countMaxConsecutiveOccurences(item, s):
    i = 0
    n = len(s)
    current_count = 0
    max_count = 0
    while i < len(item):
        if item[i:i+n] == s:
            current_count += 1
            max_count = max(max_count, current_count)
            i += n
        else:
            i += 1
            current_count = 0     
    return max_count

countMaxConsecutiveOccurences('smaplakidfsmapsmapsmapuarebeautiful', 'smap')