Joi Mond wrote: > Can someone help me with the proper code to compute combinations for n=7, > r=5 for the following list of numbers: 7, 8, 10, 29, 41, 48, 55. There > should be 21 combination. Also once there list is made can a code be > written to add (sum) each of the set of five number in the the list. For > example list: 8, 10, 29, 48, 55, = 150. Thanks
>>> [sum(x) for x in itertools.combinations([7,8,10,29,41,48,55], 5)] [95, 102, 109, 114, 121, 128, 133, 140, 147, 159, 135, 142, 149, 161, 180, 136, 143, 150, 162, 181, 183] Best wishes to your teacher... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list