Are all items in list the same?

[MRAB]

On 2019-01-08 00:14, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> 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?
> 
How about this:

all(item == my_list[0] for item in my_list)