Are all items in list the same?

[Bob van der Poel]

I need to see if all the items in my list are the same. I was using set()
for this, but that doesn't work if items are themselves lists. So, assuming
that a is a list of some things, the best I've been able to come up with it:

    if a.count( targ ) == len(a):

I'm somewhat afraid that this won't scale all that well. Am I missing
something?
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