Re: [Tutor] Automatic generation of an all possible combinations array

2007-06-15 Thread Andy Cheesman
The code works great, Thanks for the speedy response. The only problem which I can see is that the code scales very bad with the size of n. So, as I want a small subsection of the data (i.e lines where there are only 4 1s, number in the code below) for a system where n is large(20). The idea is

Re: [Tutor] Automatic generation of an all possible combinations array

2007-06-15 Thread Alan Gauld
Luke Paireepinart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You could also do this by iterating in base-16 instead of base-10... I was going to suggest the same but using octal which has the same property but fewer values to map. :-) hexmap = {0:,1:0001,2:0010,3:0011,4:0100,5:0101,

Re: [Tutor] Automatic generation of an all possible combinations array

2007-06-15 Thread Hugh M
Ah, in the case of looking for all n-digit bit-strings that contain exactly m-1's, the recursive solution is even nicer. Here's how I think of it: Base Case(s): - if you want 0 1's (m==0) then return all 0's. - if you want all 1's (n==m) then return all 1's. Otherwise Recursive Case: - return

Re: [Tutor] Automatic generation of an all possible combinations array

2007-06-14 Thread Vishnu Mohan
Another simplest way of doing it is from random import * from sys import * def bin_list(n): bin_val = 0 if n = 0: bin_val = 2**n - 1 list = [] while bin_val = 0: list.append([((bin_val y) 1) for y in range(n-1,-1,-1)]) bin_val -= 1 shuffle(list)