How to make a loop to try all sorting possibilities of x items in Python

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This is what I mean by sorting (5 items in this example, this is not code):

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[1, 2, 3, 5, 4]
[1, 2, 4, 3, 5]
etc.

It is some kind of factorial function. Without items repeating.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/104420/how-to-generate-all-permutations-of-a-list-in-python — simon, May 29 '15 at 09:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 29 '15 at 09:32

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Use itertools:

import itertools
print [i for i in itertools.permutations([1,2,3,4,5])]

edited May 29 '15 at 09:32

rajeshv90

answered May 29 '15 at 09:21

DeepSpace

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