[SciPy-dev] test matrix equality

Newbie question: What is the right/efficient way to test for equality between two matrices? While alltrue(ravel(A==B)) works, I am guessing alltrue(alltrue(A==B)) is better. If I import MA it seems I can use allequal, but this does not seem to be available otherwise. (Why??) Also, although this behaves like I want, it is oddly inconsistent with the other 'all' functions. I'd like to be able to just look at A.eq(B) for any matrices A and B. Thank you, Alan Isaac PS Suggestion: allow setting index=None for alltrue to test all individual elements.