A puzzle for Pythonistas
antonmuhin íà rambler.ru
antonmuhin at rambler.ru
Fri Jan 31 09:21:27 EST 2003
Hello, Alan!
I'm by no means an expert, but here what I can suggest:
from __future__ import generators
def indices(seq):
"""get all the indices for sequence, just a shortcut"""
for i in range(len(seq)):
yield i
def subsets(n):
"""generate all the subsets (by indices) for n-set"""
isInSubset = [0]*n
yield []
while 1:
for i in indices(isInSubset):
if isInSubset[i] == 0:
isInSubset[i] = 1
break
else:
isInSubset[i] = 0
else:
raise StopIteration
yield [i for i in indices(isInSubset) if isInSubset[i] == 1]
def problem(l):
for indices in subsets(len(l)):
part = [l[i] for i in indices]
if len(part) > 1:
print part
if __name__ == "__main__":
problem(range(4))
HTH,
Anton.
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