Question

Using pythons itertools, I’d like to create an iterator over the outer product of all permutations of a bunch of lists. An explicit example:

import itertools
A = [1,2,3]
B = [4,5]
C = [6,7]

for x in itertools.product(itertools.permutations(A),itertools.permutations(B),itertools.permutations(C)):
    print x

While this works, I’d like to generalize it to an arbitrary list of lists. I tried:

for x in itertools.product(map(itertools.permutations,[A,B,C])):
    print x

but it did not do what I intended. The expected output is:

((1, 2, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((1, 2, 3), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((1, 2, 3), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((1, 2, 3), (5, 4), (7, 6))
((1, 3, 2), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((1, 3, 2), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((1, 3, 2), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((1, 3, 2), (5, 4), (7, 6))
((2, 1, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((2, 1, 3), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((2, 1, 3), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((2, 1, 3), (5, 4), (7, 6))
((2, 3, 1), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((2, 3, 1), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((2, 3, 1), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((2, 3, 1), (5, 4), (7, 6))
((3, 1, 2), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((3, 1, 2), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((3, 1, 2), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((3, 1, 2), (5, 4), (7, 6))
((3, 2, 1), (4, 5), (6, 7))
((3, 2, 1), (4, 5), (7, 6))
((3, 2, 1), (5, 4), (6, 7))
((3, 2, 1), (5, 4), (7, 6))

Answer 1

You missed the * to unpack the list into 3 arguments

itertools.product(*map(itertools.permutations,[A,B,C]))