Please guys, I've been working on a question and I'm not getting it. How do I get my count for questions involving recursion in

Question

def single2stupor(num):
a = str(num)
count = 0
for i in range(0,len(a)-1):
b = int(a[i])*int(a[i+1])
if len(str(b)) == 1:
count += 1
elif len(str(b)) > 1:
count = 1
a = str(b)
b = single2stupor (a)
count+= 1
return count
print(single2stupor (87))

Answer 1

When you call function and print ,count value is printed ,or can you be more clear what you wanna know!

Answer 2

Abhay, the output is returning 2 instead of 3