Are all items in list the same?

[Tobiah]

On 1/8/19 9:20 AM, Alister wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:15:17 +0000, Alister wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:48:58 +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>>
>>> 08.01.19 11:07, Peter Otten пише:
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> a[1:] == a[:-1]
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Very clever! It is definitely the shortest solution.
>>
>> would that still not return true if the list was a palindrome?
> ignore me, just tried & ok
> 
> 
> 
> 

You were right the first time.  The above comparison should have been

	a == a[::-1]

A palindrome will pass.