Test if set is a subset, considering the number (multiplicity) of each element in the set

Question

I know I can test if set1 is a subset of set2 with:

{\'a\',\'b\',\'c\'} <= {\'a\',\'b\',\'c\',\'d\',\'e\'} # True

But the following is a

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is there is no set operation that does this, because the definition of a set does not provide those operations. IE defining the functionality you're looking for would make the data type not a set.

Sets by definition have unique, unordered, members:

>>> print {'a', 'a', 'b', 'c'}
set(['a', 'c', 'b'])
>>> {'a', 'a', 'b', 'c'} == {'a', 'b', 'c'}
True