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How to find the count of spaces in a dataframe using python

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Use Series.str.count with \s+ for match spaces:

df['count'] =df['Key'].str.count('\s+')
print (df)
                      Key  count
0              Identifier      0
1       Identifier Number      1
2  user identifier number      2
3                    user      0
4        Location of user      2