The best way to check if two lists have identical values

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:30 AM, mk <mrkafk at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a number of complications here, depending on definition of 'lists
> with identical values', like whether the same value can be repeated
> different number of times in two lists, or whether the order of values
> matters.
>

Order and repetitions matter:
list1 == list2

Repetition matters, order does not:
sorted(list1) == sorted(list2) # items must be comparable

Neither matters:
set(list1) == set(list2) # items must be hashable

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