[issue44197] [request feature] Itertools extended combinations to limited number of repetition

[Dennis Sweeney]

Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650 at gmail.com> added the comment:

How is proposed_function("abcd", max_repeat=3) any different from what you can currently spell as combinations("aaabbbcccddd") ? Or, more generally,

def proposed_function(it, repeats)
    repeated = chain.from_iterable([x] * repeat for x in it)
    return combinations(repeated)

This can easily generalize to specifying the max count of each item.

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