On 09.11.2006 10:52, Lad wrote: > I have a sorted list for example [1,2,3,4,5] and I would like to change > it in a random way > e.g [2,5,3,1,4] or [3,4,1,5,2] or in any other way except being > ordered. > What is the best/easiest > way how to do it? > > Thank you for help > L. > use random.shuffel:
>>> import random >>> x = [1,2,3,4,5] >>> random.shuffle(x) >>> x [1, 4, 2, 3, 5] >>> random.shuffle(x) >>> x [4, 2, 1, 3, 5] see: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-random.html HTH, Wolfram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
