Are all items in list the same?

[Peter Otten]

Tim Chase wrote:

>   def all_equal(iterable):
>     i = iter(iterable)
>     first = next(i)
>     return all(x == first for x in i)
> 
> It's undefined for an empty list (well, it throws a StopIteration
> but you can special-case that), but should hand the cases with
> 1 element and 2+ elements (both matching and where any item is not
> the same). It should work on an iterator as well but will consume the
> items in the process.
> 
> And I even like how nicely it reads :-)

If that's why you omitted the try...except use

first = next(i, None)