check if a list of several lists have the same elements but in any order, essentially the lists should be identical except for order. (number of elements in each should be the same)

gistfile1.py

def lists_same(lol):
    """ helper code that takes a list of list (lol) and checks to make sure
    that all elements in each list are in all of the lists (order doesn't
    matter) """

    if not isinstance(lol, list) or not len(lol) > 0:
        return 1

    ## lol is a list of lists
    length = 0
    for each_list in lol:
        length += len(each_list)

    ## Each element in the list are not the same size
    if (length % len(lol)) != 0:
        return False

    #temp = lol[0]
    temp = dict()
    for each_list in lol:
        each_list_str = str(id(each_list))
        temp[each_list_str] = dict()
        for each_item in each_list:
            if each_item in temp[each_list_str]:
                temp[each_list_str][each_item] += 1
            else:
                temp[each_list_str][each_item] = 1
    a = temp.keys()[0]
    temp_dict = temp[a]
    for ns in temp:
        if not temp[ns] == temp_dict:
            return False
        temp_dict = temp[ns]

    return True