How can I create an algorithm for display all possible character combinations as a list in python?

Question

The inputs for the function are

The function should output a list of all possible character combinations as a list.

For example, for input ['a','1'] and length of 2, the function should output:

[['a','a'],
['a','1'],
['1','a'],
['1','1']]

and if the length is 3, the output should be:

[['a','a','a'],
['a','a','1'],
['a','1','a'],
['a','1','1'],
['1','a','a'],
['1','a','1'],
['1','1','a'],
['1','1','1']]

BrokenBenchmark · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-13 01:56:33Z

1

You can use itertools.product with the repeat parameter:

from itertools import product

data = ['a', '1']
n = 3

print(list(list(p) for p in product(data, repeat=n)))

This gives an output of:

[['a', 'a', 'a'], ['a', 'a', '1'], ['a', '1', 'a'], ['a', '1', '1'], 
['1', 'a', 'a'], ['1', 'a', '1'], ['1', '1', 'a'], ['1', '1', '1']]

answered Feb 13, 2022 at 1:56

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