import sys
from timeit import Timer

def comb(items, n):
    if n==0: yield []
    else:
        for i in xrange(len(items)):
            for cc in comb(items[i+1:],n-1):
                yield [items[i]]+cc


def test():
    cards = range(52)
    for hand in comb(cards, 5):
        "do something with the hand"        

def main(argv):
    t = Timer("test()", "from __main__ import test")
    print t.timeit(1)


if __name__=="__main__":
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))