Question

I have two lists like:

list1 = ['square','circle','triangle']
list2 = ['red','green']

How can I create all permutations of these lists, like this:

[
  'squarered', 'squaregreen',
  'redsquare', 'greensquare',
  'circlered', 'circlegreen',
  'redcircle', 'greencircle',
  'trianglered', 'trianglegreen',
  'redtriangle', 'greentriangle'
]

Can I use itertools for this?

Answer 1

>>> import itertools
>>> map(''.join, itertools.chain(itertools.product(list1, list2), itertools.product(list2, list1)))
['squarered', 'squaregreen', 'circlered',
'circlegreen', 'trianglered', 'trianglegreen',
'redsquare', 'redcircle', 'redtriangle', 'greensquare',
'greencircle', 'greentriangle']