Yes, certainly. I hadn't done any profiling up to that point, but it
really seemed like my biggest time sink was inefficiently losing time
in obtaining the combinations.
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Paul Rubin wrote:
> I think the natural approach is to make a generator that yields a
> 5-tuple for each combination, and then have your application iterate
> over that generator. Here's my version:
>
> def comb(x,n):
> """Generate combinations of n items from list x"""
> if n
Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Swroteb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Atrocious and slow, I'm sure, but is there a better way? I can't
> > simply create a list with the combinations I want, since it won't fit
> > into memory. And I'm sure I can d
Hi there,
I've got a reasonably sized list of objects that I'd like to pull out
all combinations of five elements from. Right now I have a way to do
this that's quite slow, but manageable. I know there must be a better
way to do this, but I'm not sure what it is. Here's what I've got so
far:
