Check if all elements in a list are identical

Question

I need a function which takes in a list and outputs True if all elements in the input list evaluate as equal to each other using the standard equal

Answer 1

You can convert the list to a set. A set cannot have duplicates. So if all the elements in the original list are identical, the set will have just one element.

if len(set(input_list)) == 1:
    # input_list has all identical elements.