In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, prad wrote:
> On Friday 04 May 2007 18:40:53 Tommy Grav wrote:
>> Can anyone help me with the right approach for this
>> in python?
>
> for each in a:
> for item in a[a.index(each)+1:]:
> print each,item
>
> will produce
>
> 1 2
> 1 3
> 1 4
> 1 5
> 2 3
> 2 4
> 2 5
> 3 4
> 3 5
> 4 5
But only if the elements in the list are unique. And the runtime is
suboptimal because `index()` is doing a linear search -- the outer loop
becomes slower and slower with each iteration.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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