On Apr 16, 8:14 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > > >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Gaurav Moghe <moghe...@msu.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. But I am interested in analysing the contents of just > > one list. For example, > > > list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6] > > So, the logical statement would probably be: > > if list1==(contains all same values), print "Same" ---->False > > if list1==(contains all different values), print "Different" ---->True > > > I wanted to know here whether there is a command/function that can do > > exactly this. I hope I am more clearer than my last try! @ OP: Not much ... what do you want to print if it contains *some* different (but not all)? > Ah, okay. Then you want: > > def all_same(lst): > return len(set(lst)) == 1 > > def all_different(lst): > return len(set(lst)) == len(lst) @ OP: These are very reasonable interpretations of "all same" and "all different" but of course can both return False for the same input. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
