A permutation on permutations
Arthur Siegel
ajs at ix.netcom.com
Sun Nov 25 12:06:28 EST 2001
Simon writes -
>well, i'd like to see this list comprehension
>implemented properly ; it doesn't
>compute as it stands (on 2.1.1)...?
Lots of typos in my previous perms function. This
does work - as per Rainer Deyke's post.
def perms(L):
if L == [] :
return [[]]
return [[L[i]] + p for i in range(len(L)) \
for p in perms(L[:i] + L[i+1:])]
>To choose, eg. pick only perms
>whos first entry is less than the last
Good sugestion.
But now it gets real strange - at least
to me.
The following little func does not work as I
would expect!!!
Something about the iteration of p in t
with the list.remove().
Is the func as written certifiably bad
Python , or a bug/trap I fell into?
M=[1,2,3,4]
def removedups(t):
for p in t:
if p[-1]>p[0]:
t.remove(p)
print t
removedups(perms(M))
Note that p in t does not iterate over all
items of the original list, so sublists where
p[-1] > p[0] survive!!!
Art
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