How to compare two adjacent items in the same list - Python

Question

I am searching for a way to compare two adjacent items in a list, eg. comparing which has a higher value, and then I will sort them accordingly. It is a list the user will b

Answer 1

there is built in function cmp, which you can use for the comparison

I needed to check if all items in list are identical, so I did this:

def compare(x, y):
    if x == y:
        return x
    return False

reduce(compare, my_list)

When you run this with say [1,1,1,1,1,1], it prints 1, when one of numbers doesn't match, it returns False .. simple