all possible matchings of elements of two lists

[Jan Kaliszewski]

26-08-2009 o 12:05:41 Sandy <dksreddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I basically want all possible matchings of elements from two lists,
> Ex: [1,2] [a,b,c]
>
> Required:
>    [ [(1,a),(2,b)]
>      [(1,b),(2,c)]
>      [(1,c),(2,b)]
>      [(1,b),(2,a)]
>      [(1,c),(2,a)]
>      [(1,a),(2,c)]
>    ]
>
> My thought is to get all possible permutations of two lists given and
> select any combination and use zip to get the tuples. Repeat this for
> all possible combinations.
>
> Any other ideas?

See: module itertools -- there are (OOTB) some combinatoric generators
that may be useful for you.

*j

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Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>