30-seconds-of-code/python/snippets/have-same-contents.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Check lists have same contents	snippet	list	racoon	2020-11-02T19:28:05+02:00

Checks if two lists contain the same elements regardless of order.

• Use set() on the combination of both lists to find the unique values.
• Iterate over them with a for loop comparing the count() of each unique value in each list.
• Return False if the counts do not match for any element, True otherwise.

def have_same_contents(a, b):
  for v in set(a + b):
    if a.count(v) != b.count(v):
      return False
  return True

have_same_contents([1, 2, 4], [2, 4, 1]) # True