Help - just a few lines of code needed

[lory88]

Hi

I hope someone can help me out with a very SIMPLE program
about whole string permutations. That is: given a list of strings,
the required outcome is a complete set of all their possible
permutations.
It's like character permutations of a string, but this time it is
whole strings instead of single characters that have to be permuted.

I need this because I don't remember exactly the password to open
my zipped archives, but i do remember the bits of strings
that made up the long passphrase.

Could someone kindly write a simple program that, after reading a set
of
strings contained in a .txt file (one string on each line),
produces as output another .txt file containing all the possible
permutations/combinations of those strings.

For example, the text file with the set of strings may contain:

HOUSE
jolly
---
0&
99
and the output file contains:

HOUSE
HOUSEjolly
HOUSE---
HOUSE0&

and so on...
....with the word combinations growing extensively,
so as to exhaust all the possibilities:

e.g.

---99jolly0&
jolly0&---99HOUSE

etc. etc.

Unfortunately I am not able to program it myself, so
I would appreciate if someone could write this piece of
software, compile it (for DOS or Windows) and send the .exe file to:

lory88 at gmail . com
I thank you all in advance.

Lory

[James Stroud]

lo****@gmail.com wrote:

Unfortunately I am not able to program it myself, so

You should learn how. Its very easy and will make your life better.

Go to www.python.org.

--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

[johnzenger]

There is some fine permutation code in the cookbook. Take a look at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/190465 .

You can easily code something like:

# xcombinations from the cookbook
def xcombinations(items, n):
if n==0: yield []
else:
for i in xrange(len(items)):
for cc in xcombinations(items[:i]+items[i+1:],n-1):
yield [items[i]]+cc

wordlist = ['HOUSE','jolly','---','0&','99']

for i in xrange(1, len(wordlist)+1):
for g in xcombinations(wordlist, i):
print "".join(g)

Unfortunately I am not able to program it myself, so
I would appreciate if someone could write this piece of
software, compile it (for DOS or Windows) and send the .exe file to:

lory88 at gmail . com

Meet us halfway, here. At least install Python.

Also, it's a dangerous world out there. Don't run .exe s sent to you
by people you don't know.

[Cameron Laird]

In article <11**********************@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
<jo********@gmail.com> wrote:

There is some fine permutation code in the cookbook. Take a look at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/190465 .

You can easily code something like: