Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:10:37 -0400, William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's a one liner in Python too ;-)
>
> >>> print ' '.join([x+y+z+q for s in ['abc'] for x in s for y in s for z in
> s for q in s])
Or for the cost of an import and a lambda, you can keep it looking real
obscure and generalize it to any size of sequence ('abcdef' or whatever)
and a result length of up to 52 elements:
>>> from string import letters as L
>>> cartesian = lambda seq, num: eval("list(%s for __ in [seq]
%s)" % ('+'.join(L[:num]), 'for %s in __ ' * num % tuple(L[:num])))
# (there are spaces at any line breaks above)
>>> cartesian('abcde', 6)
['aaaaaa', 'aaaaab', 'aaaaac', 'aaaaad', 'aaaaae', 'aaaaba',
...
'eeeeec', 'eeeeed', 'eeeeee']
>>> len(_)
15625
<grin>
-Peter
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