from itertools import combinations items = [("A", 2, 3), ("B", 3, 4), ("C", 4, 5), ("D", 5, 8), ("E", 9, 10)] feasible = [] for size in range(6): for subset in combinations(items, size): weight = sum(x[1] for x in subset) value = sum(x[2] for x in subset) if weight <= 10: feasible.append(([x[0] for x in subset], weight, value)) best_value = max(x[2] for x in feasible) best = [x for x in feasible if x[2] == best_value] assert len(best) == 1 names, weight, value = best[0] result = {"items": names, "weight": weight, "value": value} import json print(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False, sort_keys=True))