Elegant way to compare sequences

Question

Does python provide an elegant way to check for \"equality\" of sequences of different types? The following work, but they seem rather ugly and verbose for python code:

Answer 1

It's probably not as efficient, but it looks funky:

def cmpLists(a, b):
    return len(a) == len(b) and (False not in [a[i] == b[i] for i in range(0,len(a)])

I don't know the "all" function that Ben mentioned, but perhaps you could use that instead of "False not in"

Answer 2

This "functional" code should be fast and generic enough for all purposes.

# python 2.6 ≤ x < 3.0
import operator, itertools as it

def seq_cmp(seqa, seqb):
    return all(it.starmap(operator.eq, it.izip_longest(seqa, seqb)))

If on Python 2.5, use the definition for izip_longest from there.