[Python-Dev] A `cogen' module [was: Re: PEP 218 (sets); moving set.py to Lib]

[Oren Tirosh]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:02:25AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Even if all the arguments are re-iterable containers the recursive call
> > produces a lazy generator object - the cartesian product of the tail. I 
> > don't want to read it eagerly into a list.
> 
> And I wasn't proposing that.
> 
> def cartesian(*sequences):
>     if len(sequences) == 0:
>         yield []
>     else:
>         head, tail = sequences[:-1], sequences[-1]
>         tail = list(tail) # <--- This is what I was proposing
>         for x in cartesian(*head):
>             for y in tail:
>                     yield x + [y]

Silly me. Too much LISPthink made me automatically see "head" as the 
first item and "tail" as the rest. Now I see that the head is all but the 
last item and the tail is the last.  It was really funny - like seeing the
cup change into two faces right in front of your eyes...

	Oren