""" Author : Syed Faizan (3rd Year Student IIIT Pune) github : faizan2700 You are given a bitmask m and you want to efficiently iterate through all of its submasks. The mask s is submask of m if only bits that were included in bitmask are set """ def list_of_submasks(mask) -> list: """ Args: mask : number which shows mask ( always integer > 0, zero does not have any submasks ) Returns: all_submasks : the list of submasks of mask (mask s is called submask of mask m if only bits that were included in original mask are set Raises: AssertionError: mask not positive integer >>> list_of_submasks(15) [15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] >>> list_of_submasks(13) [13, 12, 9, 8, 5, 4, 1] >>> list_of_submasks(-7) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS Traceback (most recent call last): ... AssertionError: mask needs to be positive integer, your input -7 >>> list_of_submasks(0) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS Traceback (most recent call last): ... AssertionError: mask needs to be positive integer, your input 0 """ fmt = "n needs to be positive integer, your input {}" assert isinstance(mask, int) and mask > 0, fmt.format(mask) """ first submask iterated will be mask itself then operation will be performed to get other submasks till we reach empty submask that is zero ( zero is not included in final submasks list ) """ all_submasks = [] submask = mask while submask: all_submasks.append(submask) submask = (submask - 1) & mask return all_submasks if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()