Getting the subsets of a set in Python

Question

Suppose we need to write a function that gives the list of all the subsets of a set. The function and the doctest is given below. And we need to complete the whole definitio

Answer 1

Look at the powerset() recipe in the itertools docs.

from itertools import chain, combinations

def powerset(iterable):
    "powerset([1,2,3]) --> () (1,) (2,) (3,) (1,2) (1,3) (2,3) (1,2,3)"
    s = list(iterable)
    return chain.from_iterable(combinations(s, r) for r in range(len(s)+1))

def subsets(s):
    return map(set, powerset(s))