Why doesn't the obvious 1-liner

[x for x in AlternatingGroup(5) if x.order()==3]

work? Again, am I missing something?



On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:57 PM, jimfar <jamesfar...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> I can find the order of the element, but I am looking to generate a
> list of all of the 3 cycles in something like AlternatingGroup(5)
> where the list will not go on for too long.
>
> On May 14, 5:04 pm, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I must be missing something. Why can't you just check the order of the 
>> element?
>>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM, jimfar <jamesfar...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I can generate a list from any given group, but how would I go about
>> > generating a list of just 3 or 5 cycles?
> >
>

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