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From: Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
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!