Charles harris posted a generator function for generating
combinations (based on Knuth's fascicle). I get the
expected results by iterating over the resulting generator,
but not if I let ``list`` do that for me. What is more,
changing ``arange`` to ``range`` in the code eliminates
this anomaly.
What am I failing to understand here?
Thank you,
Alan Isaac
################ example ###############################
def combinations(n,t):
c = arange(t + 2)
c[-2] = n
c[-1] = 0
while 1:
yield c[:t]
j = 0
while c[j] + 1 == c[j+1] :
c[j] = j
j += 1
if j >= t :
return
c[j] += 1
print "I get the expected results by iterating:"
for tpl in combinations(5,3):
print tpl
print "However list conversion fails:"
print list(combinations(5,3))
############# end example ###############################
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