from itertools import product #from pprint import pprint as pp constraintinfo = ( (lambda st: len(st) == 12 ,(1, 'This is a numbered list of twelve statements')), (lambda st: sum(st[-6:]) == 3 ,(2, 'Exactly 3 of the last 6 statements are true')), (lambda st: sum(st[1::2]) == 2 ,(3, 'Exactly 2 of the even-numbered statements are true')), (lambda st: (st[5]&st[6]) if st[4] else 1 ,(4, 'If statement 5 is true, then statements 6 and 7 are both true')), (lambda st: sum(st[1:4]) == 0 ,(5, 'The 3 preceding statements are all false')), (lambda st: sum(st[0::2]) == 4 ,(6, 'Exactly 4 of the odd-numbered statements are true')), (lambda st: sum(st[1:3]) == 1 ,(7, 'Either statement 2 or 3 is true, but not both')), (lambda st: (st[4]&st[5]) if st[6] else 1 ,(8, 'If statement 7 is true, then 5 and 6 are both true')), (lambda st: sum(st[:6]) == 3 ,(9, 'Exactly 3 of the first 6 statements are true')), (lambda st: (st[10]&st[11]) ,(10, 'The next two statements are both true')), (lambda st: sum(st[6:9]) == 1 ,(11, 'Exactly 1 of statements 7, 8 and 9 are true')), (lambda st: sum(st[0:11]) == 4 ,(12, 'Exactly 4 of the preceding statements are true')), ) def printer(st, matches): if False in matches: print('Missed by one statement: %i, %s' % docs[matches.index(False)]) else: print('Full match:') print(' ' + ', '.join('%i:%s' % (i, 'T' if t else 'F') for i, t in enumerate(st, 1))) funcs, docs = zip(*constraintinfo) full, partial = [], [] for st in product( *([(False, True)] * 12) ): truths = [bool(func(st)) for func in funcs] matches = [s == t for s,t in zip(st, truths)] mcount = sum(matches) if mcount == 12: full.append((st, matches)) elif mcount == 11: partial.append((st, matches)) for stm in full + partial: printer(*stm)