python - How to create a permutation in c++ using STL for number of places lower than the total length

Question

I have a c++ vector with std::pair<unsigned long, unsigned long> objects. I am trying to generate permutations of the objects of the vector using std::next_permutation(). However, I want the permutations to be of a given size, you know, similar to the permutations function in python where the size of the expected returned permutation is specified.

Basically, the c++ equivalent of

import itertools

list = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
for permutation in itertools.permutations(list, 3):
    print(permutation)

Python Demo

(1, 2, 3)                                                                                                                                                                            
(1, 2, 4)                                                                                                                                                                            
(1, 2, 5)                                                                                                                                                                            
(1, 2, 6)                                                                                                                                                                            
(1, 2, 7)                                                                                                                                                                            
(1, 3, 2)
(1, 3, 4)
..
(7, 5, 4)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 5, 6)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 6, 1)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 6, 2)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 6, 3)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 6, 4)                                                                                                                                                                            
(7, 6, 5) 

Answer 1

You might use 2 loops:

• Take each n-tuple
• iterate over permutations of that n-tuple

template <typename F, typename T>
void permutation(F f, std::vector<T> v, std::size_t n)
{
    std::vector<bool> bs(v.size() - n, false);
    bs.resize(v.size(), true);
    std::sort(v.begin(), v.end());

    do {
        std::vector<T> sub;
        for (std::size_t i = 0; i != bs.size(); ++i) {
            if (bs[i]) {
                sub.push_back(v[i]);
            }
        }
        do {
            f(sub);
        }
        while (std::next_permutation(sub.begin(), sub.end()));
    } while (std::next_permutation(bs.begin(), bs.end()));
}

Demo