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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/itertools.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_itertools.py12
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index db10b6d..36254cd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -590,11 +590,9 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
nexts = cycle(islice(nexts, pending))
def powerset(iterable):
- "powerset('ab') --> set([]), set(['a']), set(['b']), set(['a', 'b'])"
- # Recipe credited to Eric Raymond
- pairs = [(2**i, x) for i, x in enumerate(iterable)]
- for n in xrange(2**len(pairs)):
- yield set(x for m, x in pairs if m&n)
+ "powerset([1,2,3]) --> () (1,) (2,) (3,) (1,2) (1,3) (2,3) (1,2,3)"
+ s = list(iterable)
+ return chain.from_iterable(combinations(s, r) for r in range(len(s)+1))
def compress(data, selectors):
"compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) --> A C E F"
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index ba55d23..7023b29 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -1277,11 +1277,9 @@ Samuele
... nexts = cycle(islice(nexts, pending))
>>> def powerset(iterable):
-... "powerset('ab') --> set([]), set(['a']), set(['b']), set(['a', 'b'])"
-... # Recipe credited to Eric Raymond
-... pairs = [(2**i, x) for i, x in enumerate(iterable)]
-... for n in range(2**len(pairs)):
-... yield set(x for m, x in pairs if m&n)
+... "powerset([1,2,3]) --> () (1,) (2,) (3,) (1,2) (1,3) (2,3) (1,2,3)"
+... s = list(iterable)
+... return chain.from_iterable(combinations(s, r) for r in range(len(s)+1))
>>> def compress(data, selectors):
... "compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) --> A C E F"
@@ -1379,8 +1377,8 @@ perform as purported.
>>> list(roundrobin('abc', 'd', 'ef'))
['a', 'd', 'e', 'b', 'f', 'c']
->>> list(map(sorted, powerset('ab')))
-[[], ['a'], ['b'], ['a', 'b']]
+>>> list(powerset([1,2,3]))
+[(), (1,), (2,), (3,), (1, 2), (1, 3), (2, 3), (1, 2, 3)]
>>> list(compress('abcdef', [1,0,1,0,1,1]))
['a', 'c', 'e', 'f']