Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?

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From	Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>
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Subject	Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?
Date	Tue, 5 Aug 2014 20:06:05 +0000 (UTC)
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I need to evaluate a complicated function over a multidimensional space
as part of an optimization problem.  This is a somewhat general problem
in which the number of dimensions and the function being evaluated can
vary from problem to problem.

I've got a working version (with loads of conditionals, and it only works
to #dimensions <= 10), but I'd like something simpler and clearer and
less hard-coded.

I've web-searched for some plausible method, but haven't found anything
"nice".  Any recommendations where I should look, or what technique should
be used?

TIA!

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Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2014-08-05 20:06 +0000
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-05 22:48 +0200
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2014-08-05 20:57 +0000
    Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Gayathri J <usethisid2014@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 11:04 +0530
    Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 16:25 +1000
    Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-06 08:33 +0100
    Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-06 09:39 +0200
    Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-08-06 06:39 -0500
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Wojciech Giel <wojtekgiel@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 09:04 +0100
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Gayathri J <usethisid2014@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 17:43 +0530
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-06 14:39 +0200
  Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space? Gayathri J <usethisid2014@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 18:57 +0530

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