Using Python, find anagrams for a list of words

Question

If I have a list of strings for example:

[\"car\", \"tree\", \"boy\", \"girl\", \"arc\"...]

What should I do in order to find anagrams in t

Answer 1

I'm using a dictionary to store each character of string one by one. Then iterate through second string and find the character in the dictionary, if it's present decrease the count of the corresponding key from dictionary.

class Anagram:

    dict = {}

    def __init__(self):
        Anagram.dict = {}

    def is_anagram(self,s1, s2):
        print '***** starting *****'

        print '***** convert input strings to lowercase'
        s1 = s1.lower()
        s2 = s2.lower()

        for i in s1:
           if i not in Anagram.dict:
              Anagram.dict[i] = 1
           else:
              Anagram.dict[i] += 1

        print Anagram.dict

        for i in s2:
           if i not in Anagram.dict:
              return false
           else:
              Anagram.dict[i] -= 1

        print Anagram.dict

       for i in Anagram.dict.keys():
          if Anagram.dict.get(i) == 0:
              del Anagram.dict[i]

       if len(Anagram.dict) == 0:
         print Anagram.dict
         return True
       else:
         return False