How to apply itertools.product to elements of a list of lists?
>>> arrays = [(-1,+1), (-2,+2), (-3,+3)]
>>> list(itertools.product(*arrays))
[(-1, -2, -3), (-1, -2, 3), (-1, 2, -3), (-1, 2, 3), (1, -2, -3), (1, -2, 3), (1, 2, -3), (1, 2, 3)]
you can do it in three rurch using itertools.product
lst=[]
arrays = [(-1,+1), (-2,+2), (-3,+3)]
import itertools
for i in itertools.product(*arrays):
lst.append(i)
print(lst)
>>> list(itertools.product(*arrays))
[(-1, -2, -3), (-1, -2, 3), (-1, 2, -3), (-1, 2, 3), (1, -2, -3), (1, -2, 3), (1, 2, -3), (1, 2, 3)]
This will feed all the pairs as separate arguments to product
, which will then give you the cartesian product of them.
The reason your version isn't working is that you are giving product
only one argument. Asking for a cartesian product of one list is a trivial case, and returns a list containing only one element (the list given as argument).