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Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?

From Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?
Date 2014-08-05 20:57 +0000
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:06:05 +0000, Frank Miles wrote:

> 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!

Ahhhh.... should have waited.  The answer: itertools.product!  very nice

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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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