> P.S. How about a string.shuffle() method that splits the string in half > into two new strings str1 and str2, and then recompiles the string by > alternating one character from each str1 and str2 as it goes? Like > shuffling cards. ;)
Well, for a true shuffling of a string, there's a random.shuffle() but it chokes on strings. You have to do a little song-and-dance to get a shuffled string: >>> import random >>> s = "hello world?" >>> a = list(s) >>> random.shuffle(a) >>> s2 = ''.join(a) >>> s2 'wlhlldor oe?' Not quite the same algorithm you used. That would be something like >>> "".join(sum(map(list,zip(s,s[len(s)/2:])),[])) (my first attempt: >>> "".join(sum(map(list,zip(s[0:len(s)/2],s[len(s)/2:])),[])) had problems when the list didn't contain an even number of chars) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
