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

Convert both sequences to lists, and use builtin list comparison. It should be sufficient, unless your sequences are really large.

list(a) == list(b)

Edit:

Testing done by schickb shows that using tuples is slightly faster:

tuple(a) == tuple(b)