>>> import itertools
>>> iter=itertools.permutations([1,2,3])
>>> iter
itertools.permutations object...>
>>> list(iter)
[(1, 2, 3), (1, 3, 2), (2, 1, 3), (2, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2), (3, 2, 1)]
>>>
>>>
>>> dir(itertools...chain', 'combinations', 'combinations_with_replacement', 'compress', 'count', 'cycle', 'dropwhile', 'groupby