Вот что я придумал:
from itertools import permutations, combinations, ifilter, chain
people = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
#get all combinations of 3 sets of 3 people
combos_combos = combinations(combinations(people,3), 3)
#filter out sets that don't contain all 9 people
valid_sets = ifilter(lambda combo:
len(set(chain.from_iterable(combo))) == 9,
combos_combos)
#a set of people that have already been paired
already_together = set()
for sets in valid_sets:
#get all (sorted) combinations of pairings in this set
pairings = list(chain.from_iterable(combinations(combo, 2) for combo in sets))
pairings = set(map(tuple, map(sorted, pairings)))
#if all of the pairings have never been paired before, we have a new one
if len(pairings.intersection(already_together)) == 0:
print sets
already_together.update(pairings)
Это печатает:
~$ time python test_combos.py
((1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9))
((1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9))
((1, 5, 9), (2, 6, 7), (3, 4, 8))
((1, 6, 8), (2, 4, 9), (3, 5, 7))
real 0m0.182s
user 0m0.164s
sys 0m0.012s