In This Post we will see the Methods on how to check if all elements in a list are the same/equal. In a previous one we talked about the same thing using the array slice syntax

1 Using Set()

Set is a collection type in Python. It can't have duplicate elements in it. All the elements in the set are unique.

Algorithm

• convert the list into the set
• if the length

listOfChar = ['1','1','1','1']
if len(set(listOfChar) == 1):
  print "all elements are equal"
else:
  print "not all elements are equal"

If the Total Count of a Set is One , that means that all the elements in the List are equal .

using Python count() Function

The count() function return the number of Occurences of the input element in a list . To check if all the elements are equal , we can compare the number of occurences of the first element in the list with the length of the list .

listOfChar = ['1','1','1','1']
if listOfChar.count(listOfChar[0]) == len(listOfChar):
  print "all elements are equal"
else:
  print "not all elements are equal"

Using all() Function

the all() is a function that takes an iterable and returns a boolean.True if all elements are true and False if all elements are False.

listOfChar = ['1','1','1','1']
if all(x ==listOfChar[0] for x in listOfChar):
  print "all elements are equal"
else:
  print "not all elements are equal"

if the all returns true , that means all the elements in the list are Equal , if not that means not all of Them are Equal.