test for list equality

[darnold]

On Dec 15, 11:59 am, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My sort issue... as in this doesn't work
> > >>> if x.sort == y.sort:
>
> You're missing the () to make it a function call.
> Also list.sort() returns none, it mutates the original list.
> You can either
>     sorted(x) == sorted(y)
> or
>     set(x) == set(y)

I'm pretty sure we don't want to use set() since it throws away
duplicates:

>>> x = [1,2,3,4]
>>> y = [1,1,2,2,3,3,4]
>>> sorted(x) == sorted(y)
False
>>> set(x) == set(y)
True