I'm sorry, but I can't find a reference supporting the statement that the current permutations function is consistent with the mathematical definition. Perhaps you would like to find a reference? A quick search yielded the book "the Combinatorics of Permutations": http://books.google.ca/books?id=Op-nF-mBR7YC&lpg=PP1 Please look in the chapter "Permutation of multisets". Best, Neil On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:55:06PM -0400, Neil Girdhar wrote:
I honestly think that Python should stick to the mathematical definition of permutations rather than some kind of consensus of the tiny minority of people here.
So do I. And that is exactly what itertools.permutations already does.
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