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String Permutations Generator

This function generates all possible permutations for the characters in a given input string using itertools.permutations.


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Prompt

from itertools import permutations

def get_permutations(string):
    """
    This function returns all possible permutations of the characters in a given string.

    Args:
        string (str): The input string

    Returns:
        list: A list of all possible permutations
    """
    
    perms = [''.join(p) for p in permutations(string)]
    return perms

Answer

def get_permutations(string):
    """
    This function returns all possible permutations of the characters in a given string.

    Parameters:
    string (str): The input string for which permutations need to be generated.

    Returns:
    list: A list containing all possible permutations of the characters in the input string.

    Example:
    Input: 'abc'
    Output: ['abc', 'acb', 'bac', 'bca', 'cab', 'cba']
    """

    # Generate all permutations of the input string
    perms = [''.join(p) for p in permutations(string)]
    return perms

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Description

This function generates all possible permutations for the characters in a given input string using itertools.permutations.