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Chapter: Days 19-21: Iteration with itertools
Lecture: Combinations and Permutations
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Next up we're going to look at itertools
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combinations and permutations.
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Now let's look at combinations first.
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Now combinations allows you to get
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the possible combinations of an iterable
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of the certain, you know, of a certain string
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or a certain list, okay?
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So let's just get our setup here.
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From itertools import permutations, combinations, okay?
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Let's say we have Mike, Bob and myself.
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All right and we'll make a friends list,
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'cause we're friends right?
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Please say we're friends.
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Mike, Bob, and Julian, and we'll split that, not splut,
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we'll split, okay so we have friends.
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We have this list, Mike, Bob, and Julian.
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Now with combinations, we can see how many
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combinations you'll get of the three of us, okay.
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Now this will actually give us a generator,
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so we're going to use list, we're going to force it
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to be a list okay, so just bear with me here.
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So print(list(combinations())), okay so this is now
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we're talking edit tool stuff
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and in the brackets we have the iterable, okay?
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And the Iris pretty much what we want
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the combinations to include how many combinations we want.
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So for example if we specified Iris two,
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okay it would say, okay combinations of two.
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So Mike and Bob, Bob and Julian,
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Julian and Mike and so on, okay?
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So we're going to actually choose our friends list, all right?
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And then we're going to have a length of 2 okay?
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Let's close all this off.
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And you'll see that we get, well first of all
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we'll get return, it returns tuples, or tuples.
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And look at the combination set that we get there.
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We get Mike and Bob, get Mike and Julian,
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and then we get Bob and Julian.
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And what is it that you've probably noticed?
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There's no order, okay.
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There's no, what if the order mattered?
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If you were trying to return this list
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but you don't like Mike being first every time,
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what happens if you want it to return a tuple
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as Bob, then Mike, Julian, then Mike, Julian then Bob.
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Well that's where permutations comes in.
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So combination gives you just a valid combination,
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it doesn't care about the order, right?
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Permutation will give you not only the valid combinations
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but also in whatever possible order they can be in,
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okay and that's where permutations is super powerful, okay?
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So we'll do it the same thing,
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we'll do the exact same things,
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let's just, may as well copy and paste.
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We'll do print(list(permutations())
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works in the same way, see we got the
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iterable and we got the r.
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We can go whoops, can't type.
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We can go friends and we'll do two as well,
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just so we're keeping this standard.
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And look at that, we now have Mike and Bob,
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Mike and Julian, but then we also see,
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Bob and Mike, so over here we same Mike and Bob,
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and over here now we see Bob and Mike.
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Then there's Bob and Julian, then there's the opposite,
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Julian and Mike, as opposed to Mike and Julian,
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and Julian and Bob instead of Bob and Julian.
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And that's why permutations is awesome.
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I mean they're both awesome but this is such
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a great way of doing it, it's one line of code,
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it's just amazing, if again, itertools is awesome.
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That is permutations and combinations
