sorting question

[Steve Holden]

"dsavitsk" <dsavitsk at e-coli.net> wrote in message
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> i would like to iterate through all possible combinations of the
characters
> in a string, and i am not thinking very clearly about how to approach
this.
> that is, if the initial string is 'bar', i want to print
> ['bar', 'bra', 'abr', 'arb', 'rba', 'rab']
> any hints?
>
> thanks,
> ds
>
Tim Peters was working on something a while ago, see

    http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=558836665

but I'm not sure where it eventually went to live

regards
 Steve
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