Most elegant way to generate 3-char sequence

[Steve Holden]

James Stroud wrote:
> SuperHik wrote:
> 
>>and the winner is... :D
>>David Isaac wrote:
>>
>>
>>>alpha = string.lowercase
>>>x=(a+b+c for a in alpha for b in alpha for c in alpha)
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Not necessarily vying for winner, but David's solution is highly 
> specific as it doesn't do so well for something like
> 
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
> .
> .
> .
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
> 
> 
You can't justify your solution by requirements gold-plating ... see the 
subject line :-)

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  Steve
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