Python begineer confused by a piece of code

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Published on 2010-04-06T00:34:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 0:43 UTC
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I understand the gist of the code, that it forms permutations; however, I was wondering if someone could explain exactly what is going on in the return statement.

def perm(l):
    sz = len(l)
    print (l)
    if sz <= 1:
        print ('sz <= 1')
        return [l]
    return [p[:i]+[l[0]]+p[i:] for i in range(sz) for p in perm(l[1:])]

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