Pset6 DNA help - trouble calculating STR repeats with long database

Question

I have really tried to just solve this one myself but after a few weeks this seems futile without guidance. I am having trouble getting a for loop to calculate the maximum consecutive occurrences of each substring (str).

if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print("Usage: python dna.py data.csv sequence.txt")
    exit(1)

strCounts = {}
strList = []
dna_seq = ""
database = {}

#open csv file
with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as csvfile:
    reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
    database = list(reader)

#generate list of all present str codes
    strList = list(reader.fieldnames)
    strList.pop(0)


#open sequence txt file
with open(sys.argv[2], "r") as f:
    dna_seq = f.read()

#Loop through dna sequence searching for each specified str
for i in range(len(strList)):
    target = strList[i]
    window = len(target)
#   print("The current target str is: " + strList[i] + " and it's window length is " + str(window))

#for loop to count max consecutive occurences of each str
    max_count = 0
    count = 0
    for k in range (len(dna_seq)):
        if dna_seq[k : window-1] == target:
          count +=1
          k = window
          window = window + window
          if max_count == None or max_count < count:
             max_count = count
        else: window +=1

    strCounts[target] = max_count

I had initially set k to k += 1 and same for window. However logic suggests the window should slide the full distance of the substring(window) if there is a match

Answer 1

For anyone interested I was able to use the method described here - https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-maximum-consecutive-substring-occurrence/

I then divided result by the len of each substring (str) to give the max number of occurrences