Check if all elements in a list are identical

Question

I need a function which takes in a list and outputs True if all elements in the input list evaluate as equal to each other using the standard equal

Answer 1

Regarding using reduce() with lambda. Here is a working code that I personally think is way nicer than some of the other answers.

reduce(lambda x, y: (x[1]==y, y), [2, 2, 2], (True, 2))

Returns a tuple where the first value is the boolean if all items are same or not.