> On Dec 19, 12:48 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:54 AM, mattia <ger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, I need to create the permutation of two strings but without >> > repeat the values, e.g. 'ab' for me is equal to 'ba'. Here is my >> > solution, but maybe the python library provides something better: >> >> >>>> def mcd(a, b): >> > ... if b == 0: >> > ... return a >> > ... else: >> > ... return mcd(b, a % b) >> > ... >> >>>> def mcm(a, b): >> > ... return int((a * b) / mcd(a, b)) >> > ... >> >>>> s1 = 'abc' >> >>>> s2 = 'wt' >> >>>> m = mcm(len(s1), len(s2)) >> >>>> set(zip(s1*m, s2*m)) >> > {('a', 'w'), ('a', 't'), ('b', 'w'), ('c', 't'), ('b', 't'), ('c', 'w')} >> >> > Any help? >> >> Surprised you didn't think of the seemingly obvious approach: >> >> def permute_chars(one, two): >> for left in set(one): >> for right in set(two): >> yield (left, right) >> >> >>> list(permute_chars('abc', 'wt')) >> >> [('a', 'w'), ('a', 't'), ('b', 'w'), ('b', 't'), ('c', 'w'), ('c', 't')]
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Parker <xeno...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> a = 'qwerty' >>>> b = '^%&$#' >>>> c = [(x,y) for x in a for y in b] >>>> c > [('q', '^'), ('q', '%'), ('q', '&'), ('q', '$'), ('q', '#'), ('w', > '^'), ('w', '%'), ('w', '&'), ('w', '$'), ('w', '#'), ('e', '^'), > ('e', '%'), ('e', '&'), ('e', '$'), ('e', '#'), ('r', '^'), ('r', > '%'), ('r', '&'), ('r', '$'), ('r', '#'), ('t', '^'), ('t', '%'), > ('t', '&'), ('t', '$'), ('t', '#'), ('y', '^'), ('y', '%'), ('y', > '&'), ('y', '$'), ('y', '#')] > > > This one is better and simple. But fails if either of the input strings has repeated characters. (Although writing it as a comprehension is indeed much briefer.) Whether this matters, who knows, since the OP's spec for the function was rather vague... Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list