I write the following in the SageMath cloud:
Bob="xyz"
sB = subsets(Bob)
print map(str, sB)
print map(str, sB)
and the output is:
['[]', "['x']", "['y']", "['x', 'y']", "['z']", "['x', 'z']", "['y', 'z']", "['x', 'y', 'z']"]
[]
I.e, after the first "map", the variable "sB" becomes empty!
Why does this happen?
sage: Bob="xyz"
sage: sB = subsets(Bob)
sage: sB
<generator object powerset at 0x18fe82f00>
At this point, sB is a generator, and after you've done map(str,sB), the generator has been exhausted, so doing map(str,sB) a second time does nothing: there are no elements left in sB to apply map to. You could instead do
sage: sB = list(subsets(Bob))
Now sB is a list which can be accessed over and over again.
sage: print map(str, sB)
['[]', "['x']", "['y']", "['x', 'y']", "['z']", "['x', 'z']", "['y', 'z']", "['x', 'y', 'z']"]
sage: print map(str, sB)
['[]', "['x']", "['y']", "['x', 'y']", "['z']", "['x', 'z']", "['y', 'z']", "['x', 'y', 'z']"]
(See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12... for a related question.)
Asked: 2016-02-21 16:09:15 +0100
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Last updated: Feb 21 '16
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