Pulling all n-sized combinations from a list

[mensanator at aol.com]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> mensanator at aol.com wrote:
>
> > > It is a C extension that does permutations & combinations and is
> > > about 10x faster than doing it in pure python [I'm the author].
> > > It is also the 3rd result for "python combination" and 5th for
> > > "python permutaiton" but every month someone posts to c.l.py asking
> > > for something similar.  Go figure.
> >
> > Did you ever figure that some people use Windows?
>
> Windows don't support C ?  that was a new one.

Windows comes with a C compiler? That's news to me.

> 
> </F>