Writecodein a function named count, to accepts astring and the letter as arguments.Find the number of times the lettrs appear in the string in python

 """Writecodein a function named count, to accepts astring and the letter as arguments.Find the number of times the lettrs appear in the string"""

p=input("Enter string:")
q=input("Enter character to check:")

def check(p,q):
      if not p:
        return 0
      elif p[0]==q:
            return 1+check(p[1:],q)
      else:
            return check(p[1:],q)
print("Count is:")
print(check(p,q))