Python - get all combinations of a list

Question

I know that I can use itertools.permutation to get all permutation of size r. But, for itertools.permutation([1,2,3,4],3) it will return (1,2,3) as

Answer 1

You need itertools.combinations(). And to get a regular list, just use list() factory function.

>>> from itertools import combinations
>>> list(combinations([1, 2, 3, 4], 3))
[(1, 2, 3), (1, 2, 4), (1, 3, 4), (2, 3, 4)]