Count of character repetition in a string

word=str(raw_input('Enter the string:'))
n=raw_input('Enter the character to search in string:')
c=0
for i in word:
    if i==n:
      c=c+1
print 'Number of times the character repeated is',  c

To check a string is palidrome or not

k=raw_input('Enter a string:  ')

if k==k[::-1]:
    print 'String is palidrome'
else:
    print 'String is not palidrome'