如何从一组列表中得到笛卡尔积(每一种可能的值组合)?

输入:

somelists = [
   [1, 2, 3],
   ['a', 'b'],
   [4, 5]
]

期望的输出:

[(1, 'a', 4), (1, 'a', 5), (1, 'b', 4), (1, 'b', 5), (2, 'a', 4), (2, 'a', 5), ...]

该技术的一个常见应用是避免深度嵌套循环。有关更具体的重复,请参见避免嵌套for循环。

如果你想要一个相同列表与它自身多次相乘的笛卡尔积,itertools。Product可以很好地处理这个问题。参见对列表中的每对元素的操作或生成具有重复的排列。


当前回答

对于Python 2.5及以上版本:

>>> [(a, b, c) for a in [1,2,3] for b in ['a','b'] for c in [4,5]]
[(1, 'a', 4), (1, 'a', 5), (1, 'b', 4), (1, 'b', 5), (2, 'a', 4), 
 (2, 'a', 5), (2, 'b', 4), (2, 'b', 5), (3, 'a', 4), (3, 'a', 5), 
 (3, 'b', 4), (3, 'b', 5)]

下面是product()的递归版本(只是一个例子):

def product(*args):
    if not args:
        return iter(((),)) # yield tuple()
    return (items + (item,) 
            for items in product(*args[:-1]) for item in args[-1])

例子:

>>> list(product([1,2,3], ['a','b'], [4,5])) 
[(1, 'a', 4), (1, 'a', 5), (1, 'b', 4), (1, 'b', 5), (2, 'a', 4), 
 (2, 'a', 5), (2, 'b', 4), (2, 'b', 5), (3, 'a', 4), (3, 'a', 5), 
 (3, 'b', 4), (3, 'b', 5)]
>>> list(product([1,2,3]))
[(1,), (2,), (3,)]
>>> list(product([]))
[]
>>> list(product())
[()]

其他回答

这是一个递归生成器,它不存储任何临时列表

def product(ar_list):
    if not ar_list:
        yield ()
    else:
        for a in ar_list[0]:
            for prod in product(ar_list[1:]):
                yield (a,)+prod

print list(product([[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]]))

输出:

[(1, 3, 5), (1, 3, 6), (1, 4, 5), (1, 4, 6), (2, 3, 5), (2, 3, 6), (2, 4, 5), (2, 4, 6)]

出现使用itertools。product,从Python 2.6开始就可以使用。

import itertools

somelists = [
   [1, 2, 3],
   ['a', 'b'],
   [4, 5]
]
for element in itertools.product(*somelists):
    print(element)

这相当于:

for element in itertools.product([1, 2, 3], ['a', 'b'], [4, 5]):
    print(element)

列表推导式简单明了:

import itertools

somelists = [
   [1, 2, 3],
   ['a', 'b'],
   [4, 5]
]
lst = [i for i in itertools.product(*somelists)]

itertools.product:

import itertools
result = list(itertools.product(*somelists))

虽然已经有很多答案,但我想分享一些我的想法:

迭代方法

def cartesian_iterative(pools):
  result = [[]]
  for pool in pools:
    result = [x+[y] for x in result for y in pool]
  return result

递归方法

def cartesian_recursive(pools):
  if len(pools) > 2:
    pools[0] = product(pools[0], pools[1])
    del pools[1]
    return cartesian_recursive(pools)
  else:
    pools[0] = product(pools[0], pools[1])
    del pools[1]
    return pools
def product(x, y):
  return [xx + [yy] if isinstance(xx, list) else [xx] + [yy] for xx in x for yy in y]

Lambda方法

def cartesian_reduct(pools):
  return reduce(lambda x,y: product(x,y) , pools)