Combining sets/dictionaries

[Adrien]

Hi,

Did you try the list.update() builtin function ?

Regards

Peter Otten a écrit :
> Alfons Nonell-Canals wrote:
> 
>> I have different sets/dictionaries/lists (whatever you want because I
>> can convert them easily) and I would like to combine them. I don't want
>> a consensus and something like it. I'd need to combine all elements of
>> the first one with the all elements of the second one and third,... the
>> numbers of dictionaries/sets/lists is variable as the number of elements
>> for each one.
>>
>> For example, i have the following sets and I would like to obtain all
>> possible combinations...
>>
>> ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['F', 'I', 'L', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'R', 'C']
>> ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C']
>> ['F', 'I', 'L', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'R', 'C']
>>
>> And it should be flexible because as I've said, the number of
>> dictionaries/lists/sets is not always the same, as the number of elements.
>>
>> I don't like to ask this kid of questions but... today I'm totally lost
>> and I need it to close one part of a nice project...
> 
> Using one common definition of "combinations":
> 
>>>> from pprint import pprint
>>>> pprint(items)
> [['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['F', 'I', 'L', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'R', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'],
>  ['F', 'I', 'L', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'R', 'C']]
>>>> import itertools
>>>> for c in itertools.combinations(items, 2):
> ...     print c
> ...
> (['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'], ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'])
> (['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'], ['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'])
> (['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'], ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'])
> (['I', 'O', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'], ['I', 'N', 'P', 'S', 'C'])
> <snip>
> 
> If you mean something else (likely) please give a more detailed description 
> or provide some examples with both input and desired output.
> 
> Peter
>