Permutations of list of list of lists

Question

I want to find the permutation of list of list of lists For example: my input

x = [[[1,2,3],[5,6,7]],[[8,9,10],[11,12]]]

Required output should be:

[[[1,2,3],[8,9,10]],[[1,2,3],[11,12]],[[5,6,7],[8,9,10]],[[5,6,7],[11,12]]]

As you can see I want the innermost list to be intact and need to have that considered as an element and then do combinations.

I tried permutations(array) in itertools. But it didn't work.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

How does it "not work"? It didn't work is not an adequate problem specification. — juanpa.arrivillaga
– juanpa.arrivillaga, Commented May 18, 2017 at 22:39
Hint: you aren't looking for permutations, you want the Cartesian product — juanpa.arrivillaga
– juanpa.arrivillaga, Commented May 18, 2017 at 22:43

Prune · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-18 22:46:41Z

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You need itertools.product

import itertools

x = [[[1,2,3],[5,6,7]],[[8,9,10],[11,12]]]
for combo in itertools.product(*x):
    print combo

Output:

([1, 2, 3], [8, 9, 10])
([1, 2, 3], [11, 12])
([5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10])
([5, 6, 7], [11, 12])

answered May 18, 2017 at 22:46

Prune

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