Kay Schluehr schrieb:
> But why isn't this interpreted as [0, 1, 4] like it is in Mathematica?
Because we are thinking of a cartesian product. If you have lists of
numbers, then there are mane more ways to define a product: tensor
product, vector product, scalar product, componentwise product...
The cartesian product is a much more generic concept, you can have it
already for sets:
class sset(set):
def __mul__(self, other):
return sset((a,b) for a in self for b in other)
def __pow__(self, other):
if isinstance(other, int) and other > 0:
if other == 1:
return self
elif other == 2:
return self*self
else:
return sset(a + (b,) \
for a in self**(other-1) for b in self)
Example:
for x in sorted(sset("ACGU")**3):
print ''.join(x)
AAA
AAC
AAG
AAU
ACA
ACC
.
.
.
UGU
UUA
UUC
UUG
UUU
Now as I'm thinking about it, wouldn't it be nice to have the cartesian
products on Python sets? Maybe also a method that returns the power set
of a set (the set of all subsets), or the set of all subsets with a
given length. You could get a 6/49 lotto tip with something like:
choice(set(range(49)).powerset(6))
-- Christoph
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