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

Here is my quick implementation utilizing combinations but using only built-ins.

def powerSet(array):
    length = str(len(array))
    formatter = '{:0' + length + 'b}'
    combinations = []
    for i in xrange(2**int(length)):
        combinations.append(formatter.format(i))
    sets = set()
    currentSet = []
    for combo in combinations:
        for i,val in enumerate(combo):
            if val=='1':
                currentSet.append(array[i])
        sets.add(tuple(sorted(currentSet)))
        currentSet = []
    return sets