http://www.bytemycode.com Revisions for this snippet. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:21:00 +0000 1998-2008 en-us http://www.bytemycode.com http://www.bytemycode.com/img/rss_title.gif http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/459/1/ http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/459/comments/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:41:21 +0000 nil_ptr permutations, permute, python http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/459/ This is snippet of code solves the interesting (and specialized) problem of generating all permutations of a list. I hope you like recursion. For exmaple:

permute( [0,1,2] )

would return

[[0,1,2],[0,2,1],[1,0,2],[1,2,0],[2,0,1],[2,1,0]]

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