[Tutor] dealing with lists

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/02/2022 22:21, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 23/02/2022 20:11, marcus.luetolf at bluewin.ch wrote:

[snipped to hell]

>>
>> I  would liketo  distribute all 16 characters to the 4 sublists 5 times in 5
>> iterations respectivly  so that as a condition a pair of characters,
>> p.e. ['a', 'b', .]  or ['a', 'c'.] or ['n', 'p' .] can appear only once
>> in all 20 sublists.
> 
> You can probably use some of the python modules to do that
> for you as a set of combinations or permutations or whatever
> you actually want.
> 

https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.combinations
https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.permutations

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