Checking strings against each other (Anagrams)

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Kyle picture Kyle · Feb 20, 2013 · Viewed 54.3k times · Source

The assignment is to write a program that accepts two groups of words from the user and then prints a "True" statement if the two are anagrams (or at least if all the letters of one are present in the other) and a "False" statement if not.

Being very new to programming as a whole, I don't know how to move beyond just indexing a string and comparing all of the pieces of one to another. I stress that I am a beginner; I've read many of the other posts tagged with Python and Anagram, and they are uniformly above my head and reference things I have not been taught. So the simpler the better. Here is my non-working code so far:

s1 = input("Please enter a word:")
s2 = input("Please enter another word:")

for i in range(0, len(s1), 1):
    if i in range (0, len(s2), 1):
        print("The letters in your first word are present in your second word.")

Answer

Blender picture Blender · Feb 20, 2013

Why not just sort the strings?

>>> sorted('anagram')
['a', 'a', 'a', 'g', 'm', 'n', 'r']
>>> sorted('nagaram')
['a', 'a', 'a', 'g', 'm', 'n', 'r']
>>> sorted('anagram') == sorted('nagaram')
True

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