Simple python script to find a word in a list of sentences

gistfile1.txt

def find_occurrences(phrasesList, text):
    total_count = 0
    for phrase in phrasesList:
        local_count = 0
        words = phrase.split()
        for word in words:
            if text in word:
                local_count += 1
        #print("Found {} ocurrences of \"{}\" in \"{}\"".format(local_count, text, phrase))
        total_count += local_count
        #print("Found {} total ocurrences so far".format(total_count))
    return total_count


assert find_occurrences(["welcome to our Python program", "Python is my favorite language!", "I am afraid of Python", "I love Python"], "Python") == 4
assert find_occurrences(["this is the best day", "Python is the best language for learning programming", "I am learning", "I love learning"], "learning") == 3
assert find_occurrences(["welcome", "language", "I am", "I love"], "Python") == 0
assert find_occurrences(["What are you doing?", "you like programming?", "We are students", "We are learners"], "are") == 3
assert find_occurrences(["welcome welcome", "wikipedia", "wonderland", "we"], "w") == 5