Re: Permutation over a list with selected elements

2007-06-20 Thread Anton Vredegoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Given a list of elements that are either a character or a character > follows by a number, e.g. > > ['a', 'b', 'c1', 'd', 'e1', 'f', 'c2', 'x', 'e2'] > > find all the permutations that are given by switching the positions of > the elements that: > (1) begins with the

Re: Permutation over a list with selected elements

2007-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 20, 12:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have been working at this problem, and I think I need apermutation > > algorithm that does > > the following: > > > Given a list of elements that are either a character or a

Re: Permutation over a list with selected elements

2007-06-19 Thread Alex Martelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been working at this problem, and I think I need a permutation > algorithm that does > the following: > > Given a list of elements that are either a character or a character > follows by a number, e.g. > > ['a', 'b', 'c1', 'd', 'e1',