Number Sequencing, Grouping and Filtering

[flebber]

On Mar 10, 8:54 pm, flebber <flebber.c... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the direction of
> some good documentation regarding sequencing, grouping and filtering
> and in which order they should be done.
>
> As a small example it is easy to create the range of numbers 1 to 20.
> But if I wanted to group all possible combinations of sets of 4
> numbers within this range is there already an in uilt function for
> this I am searching the module docs with "number sequencing" and
> "number grouping" but cannot find info.
>
> Then if I wanted to refine this results further eg no consecutive
> numbers to be contained in sets. Is it best to create all sets and
> then filter the sets for things matching this criteria or to set this
> condition in a creation. Creating sets and then filtering would soon
> become unwieldy with a larger range I would imagine..
>
> An ideas, pointers to docs or better search terms to help me explore
> this further would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks Sayth

I have just found itertools is this acheivable using combinations()
and groupby() in itertools?