"Joerg Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am looking for a method to "shuffle" the lines of a large file. Of the top of my head: decorate, randomize, undecorate. Prepend a suitable large random number or hash to each line and then use sort. You could prepend new line numbers instead but even storing the randomised indexes might use too much memory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list