Thanks! It works! Justin.
Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Justin Park <h...@rice.edu> wrote: > >> Suppose I have a list. >> a = list() >> And suppose allowed digits as the element are 1,2,3,4,5. >> >> What can I do in order to iterate over all possible values for each element? >> For instance, the sequence of the list I want to have would be >> [1,1,1,1,1] >> [1,1,1,1,2] >> [1,1,1,1,3] >> >> .... >> >> [5,5,5,5,4] >> [5,5,5,5,5] >> >> How can I make it happen? >> > > allowed = range(1,6) > length = 5 > for counter_tuple in product(allowed, repeat=length): > counter_list = list(counter_tuple) # if you really need a list > #do whatever with the counter value > > See the docs for itertools.product(); an example virtually identical > to your situation is given: > http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.product > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
