Given an arbitrary ransom note string and another string containing letters from all the magazines, write a function that will return true if the ransom note can be constructed from the magazines ; otherwise, it will return false.
Each letter in the magazine string can only be used once in your ransom note.
Note:
You may assume that both strings contain only lowercase letters.
canConstruct("a", "b") -> false canConstruct("aa", "ab") -> false canConstruct("aa", "aab") -> trueclass Solution(object):
def canConstruct(self, ransomNote, magazine):
"""
:type ransomNote: str
:type magazine: str
:rtype: bool
"""
if len(ransomNote)==1 and magazine.find(ransomNote)==-1:
return False
ran=list(ransomNote)
ran.sort()
count=1
temp=''
for i in range(0,len(ran)-1):
if ran[i]==ran[i+1]:
count+=1
temp=ran[i+1]
else:
if magazine.count(ran[i])<count:
return False
count=1
temp=ran[i+1]
if magazine.count(temp)<count:
return False
return True