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
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