Generating all possible rgb colors

Question

It seems like it\'d be much simpler than it is, but what can be done to generate all 16,777,255 rgb colors with python?

Answer 1

8-bit RGB values are 3-tuples of numbers 0..255. You can generate them all conveniently using the cartesian product function from itertools.

itertools.product(xrange(256), repeat=3)

Answer 2

Colors are usually represented as hexadecimal numbers which are actually just integers. So a simple loop from 0 to 16,777,215 (0xFFFFFF) would be enough to generate all 24 bit RGB colors.

In python 2.x, you can do:

allcolors = range(0xFFFFFF+1):