How to get all subsets of a set? (powerset)

Question

Given a set

{0, 1, 2, 3}

How can I produce the subsets:

[set(),
 {0},
 {1},
 {2},
 {3},
 {0, 1},
 {0, 2},
 {0, 3},
 {1, 2}         


        

Answer 1

Perhaps the question is getting old, but I hope my code will help someone.

def powSet(set):
    if len(set) == 0:
       return [[]]
    return addtoAll(set[0],powSet(set[1:])) + powSet(set[1:])

def addtoAll(e, set):
   for c in set:
       c.append(e)
   return set