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<p class="MsoNormal">Itertools.product has a “magic” function that isn’t documented:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The usage of * as precedent to a list of lists of variable length.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Example:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> from itertools import product<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> list(product(*[[-1,1], [-2,-2.5,2], [-3,3]]))<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[(-1, -2, -3), (-1, -2, 3), (-1, -2.5, -3), (-1, -2.5, 3), (-1, 2, -3), (-1, 2, 3), (1, -2, -3), (1, -2, 3), (1, -2.5, -3), (1, -2.5, 3), (1, 2, -3), (1, 2, 3)]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The function works perfectly. The documentation of the usage is missing.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please add it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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