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One way to generate all possible arrangements of a given string using Python is to use the itertools library. Specifically, the permutations function can be used to generate all possible permutations of a given string.

Here is an example code snippet that generates all possible arrangements of a given string:

import itertools

def generate_permutations(string):
    # Convert the string to a list of characters
    chars = list(string)
    # Use itertools.permutations to generate all possible permutations
    perms = itertools.permutations(chars)
    # Convert each permutation back to a string and store in a list
    result = [''.join(perm) for perm in perms]
    return result

This function takes a string as input and returns a list of all possible arrangements of the string. For example, calling generate_permutations('abc') will return ['abc', 'acb', 'bac', 'bca', 'cab', 'cba'].