Re: shuffling elements of a list

greenflame wrote:
Zhang Fan wrote:
On 30 May 2006 20:18:19 -0700, greenflame <alikakakhel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Second of all, I would like to have
other methods of shuffling, prefererably riffle shuffling and just
plain randomly arranging the elements of the list.
The random module has a `shuffle' method. It "Shuffle the sequence x
in place".
It may be help for you

I am sorry but this does not help much. In my version of python (2.3)
this method does not seem to exist. Also from the documentation, it
seems that this method would give a random number.

You should update your Python then ;)
It's a very nice method:

>>> import random
>>> random.seed()
>>>
>>> list = [1,21,23,4,5]
>>> random.shuffle(list)
>>> print list
[5, 4, 23, 1, 21]
.