generating points on a grid - efficiently

[Rajarshi Guha]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:44:47 +0000, simon place wrote:

> Rajarshi Guha wrote:
>> Hi, 
>>  I've written some code that takes a N lists of numbers (corresponding to
>> axes) and generates a list of grid points (N dimensional grid) for the
>> supplied axes. So as an example say my two axes are defined as
>> 
>> v1 = [1,2,3]
>> v2 = [1,2,3]
>> 
>> My code will return to me a list of points: 
>> 
>> (1,1), (1,2), (1,3) ....(3,1), (3,2), (3,3)
>> 
> 
> [[a,b] for a in v1 for b in v2]
> 
> 
>> and so on. For 3 axes, I would obtain 27 points and so on.
>> I've included the code below.
> 
> 
> [[a,b,c] for a in v1 for b in v2 for c in v3]
>
Thanks very much - it speeded it up significantly