On 13 April 2010 01:07, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@pearwood.info> wrote
>
>>>>> import itertools
>>>>> for x in itertools.product('abc', 'abc', 'abc'):
>>
>> If you don't like the repeated 'abc' in the call to product(), it can be
>> written as itertools.product(*['ab']*3) instead.
>
> Nope, I think the repeated string is much clearer, and thus better,
> than the cryptogram thanks very much! :-)
>
> But I like the itertools solution.
> I really, really, need to spend some time playing with itertools.
>
>
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itertools.product() also has the repeat keyword argument:
for x in itertools.product('abc', 'abc', 'abc'):
is the same as
for x in itertools.product('abc', repeat=3):
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