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Can anyone solve this?

Stuart Ford Stuart.Ford at Boeckh.com
Tue Jun 27 18:54:17 EDT 2000 
<rdudfield at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:<8j737m$t5a$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a problem here which I just can't figure out.
> 
> 
> a = [1,2,3]
> b = ["c",32]
> c = [1,2]
> 
> inputlist = [a,b,c]
> 
> Inputlist can have any number of lists in it.  The lists in it can have
> any number of elements in them.
> 
> I need the code to give every possible combination of the lists in
> inputlist.
> 
> This is what the answer should be for the inputlist above.
> 
> outputlist = [[1, 'c', 1], [1, 'c', 2], [1, 32, 1], [1, 32, 2], [2, 'c',
> 1], [2, 'c', 2], [2, 32, 1], [2, 32, 2], [3, 'c', 1], [3, 'c', 2], [3,
> 32, 1], [3, 32, 2]]
> []
> 
> 
Try this routine on... it's a kludge, but it works..

def combiner(inlist):
    outlist = []
    indent = 0
    command = ''
    for arg in inlist:
        command = command + indent*'  ' + 'for xx' + `indent` + ' in
inlist[' + `indent` + ']:\n'
        indent = indent + 1
    command = command + indent*'  ' + 'outlist.append(['
    for x in range(0, indent):
        if x == indent-1:
            command = command + 'xx' + `x`
        else:
            command = command + 'xx' + `x` + ','
    command = command + '])\n'
    exec command
    return outlist

Stuart
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