Quick and Dirty(probably better ways to do it): def permute(string, prefix = ''): if len(string) == 1: print prefix + string return

Quick and Dirty(probably better ways to do it): def permute(string, prefix = ''): if len(string) == 1: print prefix + string return for x in range(0, len(string)): new_prefix = prefix + string[x] unused_chars = string[0:x] + string[x+1:] permute(unused_chars, new_prefix)