prad wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2007 18:40:53 Tommy Grav wrote: >> Can anyone help me with the right approach for this >> in python? > > for each in a: > for item in a[a.index(each)+1:]: > print each,item > > will produce > > 1 2 > 1 3 > 1 4 > 1 5 > 2 3 > 2 4 > 2 5 > 3 4 > 3 5 > 4 5 > > a.index(each) gives the index of the each value in the a list. > then you just add 1 to it so you start at the index value beside each's > index.
If there are equal items you may not get what you expect: >>> items = [1, 2, 1.0] >>> for a in items: ... for b in items[items.index(a)+1:]: ... print a, b ... 1 2 1 1.0 2 1.0 1.0 2 1.0 1.0 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
