iterator? way of generating all possible combinations?

[Raymond Hettinger]

akameswaran at gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, this is really irritating me.  I'm sure there are different ways of
> doing this - I'm interested in the algo, not the practical solution,
> I'm more trying to play with iterators and recursion.  I want to create
> a program that generates every possible combination of a set of a n
> dice, with s sides.
 . . .
> Any ideas?  or better terms to google?  cuz I've tried.

There are several interesting tidbits in the ASPN Cookbook:


http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/search?query=combinations&section=PYTHONCKBK&type=Subsection

  http://tinyurl.com/frxqz



Raymond