Any possible combination in a list?

Question

I am currently following How to get all possible combinations of a list’s elements?. The recommended solution implements the ordered solution i.e. if you have A, B then combinations are A, B, AB.

Nevertheless, I would like to include any possible ordering of elements i.e. A, B, BA, AB. Is there any way to do that in Python?

Thank you.

What you are looking for is called "permutations" – murgatroid99 Jul 20 '13 at 15:20 — murgatroid99, Jul 20 '13 at 15:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '13 at 15:22

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import itertools

xs = 'a', 'b'
for n in range(1, len(xs)+1):
    for ys in itertools.permutations(xs, n):
        print(ys)

prints

('a',)
('b',)
('a', 'b')
('b', 'a')

answered Jul 20 '13 at 15:22

falsetru

you are amazing:) i will accept the answer as soon as i can (in 9 minutes) since i am new here i cannot accept right away – Martin Jul 20 '13 at 15:25
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thank you :) i clicked it now :) thansks again man – Martin Jul 20 '13 at 15:41

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