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# Posted on http://www.thescripts.com/forum/forum152.html

# Returns a list (Python 2.3) or set (Python 2.4) with all

# possible letter combinations of the argument string

# Python 2.3

def anagrams(s):

if s == "":

return [s]

else:

ans = []

for an in anagrams(s[1:]):

for pos in range(len(an)+1):

ans.append(an[:pos]+s[0]+an[pos:])

u={}

for i in ans:

u[i]=1

return u.keys()

# Python 2.4

def anagrams(s):

if s == "":

return [s]

else:

ans = set()

for an in anagrams(s[1:]):

for pos in range(len(an)+1):

ans.add(an[:pos]+s[0]+an[pos:])

return ans

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>>> anagrams('tor')

['tro', 'tor', 'rto', 'otr', 'rot', 'ort']

>>> anagrams('oot')

['oot', 'too', 'oto']

>>> anagrams('ebre')

['bere', 'eebr', 'rebe', 'ereb', 'eerb', 'eber', 'beer', 'erbe', 'rbee', 'reeb', 'bree', 'ebre']

>>>