Reorder a List and Find All Possible Combinations

Question

I have a Python list with a variable number of elements.

[a,b,c,d,e]

I need to rearrange these elements inside the list and find all possible unique combinations.

[a,b,c,d,e]
[d,b,a,e,c]
[e,d,a,c,b], etc.

I cannot have same elements repeated, or have any elements removed:

[a,a,a,d,e]  <-- bad

OK. Now, what have you tried to solve this, and can you show your code and explain what difficulties you are facing in your implementation? — idjaw, Jul 22 '17 at 23:50

Mohd · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-22T23:53:48.443

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You should use itertools.permutations, for example:

import itertools
my_list = [a, b, c, d]
for x in itertools.permutations(my_list):
    print(x)

edited Jul 22 '17 at 23:53

answered Jul 22 '17 at 23:52

Mohd

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '17 at 23:50

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answered Jul 22 '17 at 23:50

Alex Hall

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