Charles Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive any silly mistakes I have made (I've been teaching > myself python for about 1 week) but there is a moderately > well known algorithm for this that extends to arbitrary > lengths of both the list of alternatives and the length > of the required output, and avoids deeply nested loops.
s = "abcd" def a(n): if n==0: yield '' return for c in s: for r in a(n-1): yield c+r print list(a(3)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list