Checking if a string is anagram of each other

Asked Apr 28 '17 at 15:06

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I have written the logic of checking if two strings are anagrams of each other in Python. Can someone please check if this is correct or is there a better way out:

def checkanagram(str1,str2):
    l1 = list(str1)
    l2 = list(str2)
    temp = str1
    for c in temp:
        if c in l2:
            l1.remove(c)
            l2.remove(c)
    if len(l1) == 0 and len(l2) == 0:
        return True
    else:
        return False

str1 = input()
str2 = input()
if checkanagram(str1,str2):
    print ("It is an anagram")
else:
    print ("Its not an anagrams")

asked Apr 28 '17 at 15:06

Subhayan Bhattacharya

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`return sorted(str1) == sorted(str2)` – Chris_Rands Apr 28 '17 at 15:08
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Possible duplicate of [Checking strings against each other (Anagrams)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14990725/checking-strings-against-each-other-anagrams) – Chris_Rands Apr 28 '17 at 15:09
What do your tests say? Does it work correctly for carefully chosen test cases? – Jon Kiparsky Apr 28 '17 at 15:10
Yes my tests are working fine. But i am wondering what will happen for big strings – Subhayan Bhattacharya Apr 28 '17 at 15:20

Checking if a string is anagram of each other

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