Combinations with replacement are not supported

[maxale]

Problem Description

It appears that Combinations class does not support those with replacement, which would a nice feature to have.

Proposed Solution

Add a keyword argument like replacement= with default value False (current behavior), setting which to True will produce combinations with replacement.

Alternatives Considered

Alternative is itertools.combinations_with_replacement() function.

Additional Information

Ordered combinations with and without replacement are supported via Tuples and Permutations classes respectively.

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.

[debesh00800]

@maxale Can I please work on this if this is not assigned yet?

[maxale]

@debesh00800: No need to ask, just contribute a fix if you have one.