Question

what is the bes way tho check if two words are ordered in sentence and how many times it occurs in python.
For example: I like to eat maki sushi and the best sushi is in Japan.
words are: [maki, sushi]

Thanks.

The code

import re

x="I like to eat maki sushi and the best sushi is in Japan"
x1 = re.split('\W+',x)
l1 = [i for i,m in enumerate(x1) if m == "maki"]
l2 = [i for i,m in enumerate(x1) if m == "sushi"]


ordered = []
for i in l1:
    for j in l2: 
        if j == i+1:
            ordered.append((i,j))

print ordered

Answer 1

According to the added code, you mean that words are adjacent?

Why not just put them together:

print len(re.findall(r'\bmaki sushi\b', sent))