Great points so far! But if you want to maintain the order and handle duplicates, yet still do advanced comparisons, you can use modules like collections.Counter or create your own comparison logic. For example:
from collections import Counter
a = [1, 2, 2, 3]
b = [3, 2, 2, 1]
print(Counter(a) == Counter(b)) # True, same elements and counts
Or, you can perform element-wise comparisons using loops or list comprehensions:
dateArr = ['Thu', 'Sep', '16', '13:14:15', 'CDT', '2010']
sdateArr = ['Thu', 'Sep', '16', '14:14:15', 'CDT', '2010']
matches = [dateArr[i] == sdateArr[i] for i in range(len(dateArr))]
print(matches) # [True, True, True, False, True, True]
This approach helps identify which elements differ when doing python compare arrays.