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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 06:39:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: Pythonic way to iterate through multidimensional space?
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On 2014-08-06 11:04, Gayathri J wrote:
> Below is the code I tried to check if itertools.product() was
> faster than normal nested loops...
> 
> they arent! arent they supposed to be...or am i making a mistake?

I believe something like this was discussed a while ago and there was
a faster-but-uglier solution so you might want to consult this thread:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-January/516109.html

I believe this may have taken place before itertools.product() came
into existence.

-tkc