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

You can do it like this:

def powerset(x):
    m=[]
    if not x:
        m.append(x)
    else:
        A = x[0]
        B = x[1:]
        for z in powerset(B):
            m.append(z)
            r = [A] + z
            m.append(r)
    return m

print(powerset([1, 2, 3, 4]))

Output:

[[], [1], [2], [1, 2], [3], [1, 3], [2, 3], [1, 2, 3], [4], [1, 4], [2, 4], [1, 2, 4], [3, 4], [1, 3, 4], [2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 4]]