Solution for Issue #3, mutations, in python #163
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Dear the-vampiire,
this is my first pull request! I hope it works out fine.
Approach / Thought Process
My approach was to first make both strings comparable (both were set to lower case) and then to compare each letter from the second string against the first string. I ended up doing it by transforming the first string into a list for reasons discussed in the section below.
Problems during the solution process
The main issue I had was making sure that the same letter in the first string couldn't be "used twice". I ended up solving it by transforming the first string into a list and removing each letter as it was used.
Instructions to run
The python file is set to run the tests (hardcoded into name=="main"), but the mutations function can be imported separately and ran. The input is a list of two strings, in which the second string will be tested against the first.
-- bpbrum