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? -- Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one. -- Jack Hurley -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list