In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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.
lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] tmp = list(lst) while lst == tmp: random.shuffle(lst) If you *really* want to be sure it's not sorted after shuffling. :-) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list