Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:03:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> >> Do you want the result to be:
> >> AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD
> >
> > That is the complete set of combinations of the letters.
> >
> >> Or, do you want AB,BA,AC,CA,AD,DA,BC,CB,BD,DB,CD,DB ?
> >
> > That is the comple
Jay Parlar wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm a beginner with programming. Trying to teach myself with that
> > excellent rat book. Unfortunately I just can't seem to figure out a
> > simple problem that has come up at my work (biology lab)
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:03:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Do you want the result to be:
>> AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD
>
> That is the complete set of combinations of the letters.
>
>> Or, do you want AB,BA,AC,CA,AD,DA,BC,CB,BD,DB,CD,DB ?
>
> That is the complete set of permutations of the letters.
Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For instance, say you have the list ['A','B',C','D'], and you want
> all possible TWO letter permutations.
$ dict permutation
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Permutation \Per`mu*ta"tion\ (p[~e]r`m[-u
Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/753
A string is also iterable, so whether s is the string (as shown) or
list('ACDEFGHIKLMNPQRSTVWY'), as you have it above, this should
generate the 16 permutations, as a list of 4-
On Dec 8, 2005, at 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a beginner with programming. Trying to teach myself with that
> excellent rat book. Unfortunately I just can't seem to figure out a
> simple problem that has come up at my work (biology lab):
> let's say I have a lis
Hello all,
I'm a beginner with programming. Trying to teach myself with that excellent rat book. Unfortunately I just can't seem to figure out a simple problem that has come up at my work (biology lab):
let's say I have a list ['A','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','K','L','M','N','P','Q','R','S','T','
