[Python] Equality of pandas data frames except dtypes

I need to check if two DataFrames are somewhat "equal", but in a looser sense than pandas.DataFrame.equals is implementing it currently.

I am aware of pandas.testing.assert_frames_equal and I really love it, but now I need it a control flow statement and not for testing. For instance I'd like the following code snippet to output equal:

df1 = pd.DataFrame([[1]])
df2 = pd.DataFrame([[1.0]])

if frames_equals(df1, df2, check_dtypes=False):
print("equal")
else:
print("not equal")


Is there such a function readily available in the pandas library?

Note: The question is not about how to build one, but rather if there already is one.

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