How do you get x amounts of y in one string and put it in another string in python?

Question

If the string is "43 Lobsters and 3 Crabs" I want to get only the s's from this string. There are three s's so in my new string I must have just "sss".

Answer 1

why dont you use the count function?

thestr = "43 Lobsters and 3 Crabs"
y = 's'
x = thestr.count(y)

so now you know how many times it appears in the string use that variable to construct a string

finstr = y * x