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Anagram check with Counter

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Write a Python program to check whether two words are anagrams using Counter.

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Output
listen silent True
python typhon True
apple apply False

Approach

  1. Equal letter counts mean anagrams.

Solution

Python
from collections import Counter for a, b in [("listen", "silent"), ("python", "typhon"), ("apple", "apply")]:    print(a, b, Counter(a) == Counter(b))
Output
listen silent True
python typhon True
apple apply False

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