Most elegant way to generate 3-char sequence

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

James Stroud a écrit :
> SuperHik wrote:
> 
>> and the winner is... :D
>> David Isaac wrote:
>>
>>> alpha = string.lowercase
>>> x=(a+b+c for a in alpha for b in alpha for c in alpha)
>>
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>>
>>
> 
> Not necessarily vying for winner, but David's solution is highly 
> specific as it doesn't do so well for something like
> 
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
> .
> .
> .
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
> 

And ? Was it asked for ?

I'd personaly start with David's solution - IOW : simplest thing that 
could possibly work -, and only bother making it more generic if/when I 
have a use case for a more generic solution.

Premature generalisation is the root of all evil !-)