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Steven Lott has been programming since computers were large, expensive, and rare. Working for decades in high tech has given him exposure to a lot of ideas and techniques, some bad, but most are helpful to others. Since the 1990s, Steven has been engaged with Python, crafting an array of indispensable tools and applications. His profound expertise has led him to contribute significantly to Packt Publishing, penning notable titles like "Mastering Object-Oriented," "The Modern Python Cookbook," and "Functional Python Programming." A self-proclaimed technomad, Steven's unconventional lifestyle sees him residing on a boat, often anchored along the vibrant east coast of the US. He tries to live by the words “Don't come home until you have a story.”
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9.5 Generating all combinations

The itertools module also supports computing all combinations of a set of values. When looking at combinations, the order doesn’t matter, so there are far fewer combinations than permutations. The number of combinations is often stated as (p) r = --p!-- r!(p− r)!. This is the number of ways that we can take combinations of r things at a time from a universe of p items overall.

For example, there are 2,598,960 five-card poker hands. We can actually enumerate all 2 million hands by executing the following command:

>>> from itertools import combinations, product 
 
>>> hands = list( 
...     combinations( 
...         tuple( 
...             product(range(13), ’♠♡♢♣’) 
...         ), 5 
...     ) ...
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Steven Lott has been programming since computers were large, expensive, and rare. Working for decades in high tech has given him exposure to a lot of ideas and techniques, some bad, but most are helpful to others. Since the 1990s, Steven has been engaged with Python, crafting an array of indispensable tools and applications. His profound expertise has led him to contribute significantly to Packt Publishing, penning notable titles like "Mastering Object-Oriented," "The Modern Python Cookbook," and "Functional Python Programming." A self-proclaimed technomad, Steven's unconventional lifestyle sees him residing on a boat, often anchored along the vibrant east coast of the US. He tries to live by the words “Don't come home until you have a story.”
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