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

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.