Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > On 09/13/2014 05:47 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: >> Here is a screenshot of me trying Dave Briccetti's quiz program from >> the shell and it (the shuffle command) works. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-yNEpGk3g >> http://i.imgur.com/vlpVa5i.jpg >> >> Two questions >> If you import random, do you need to "from random import shuffle"? >> >> Why does shuffle work from the command line and not when I add it to >> this program? >> >> import random >> import shuffle >> nums=list(range(1,11)) >> shuffle(nums) >> print (nums) >> >> I get: >> No module named 'shuffle' > > You can do it two ways: > Refer to it as random.shuffle() > > or > > from random import shuffle > > I tend to use the first method (random.shuffle). That way it prevents > my local namespace from getting polluted with random symbols imported > from modules. > >
Or a third way: import random shuffle = random.shuffle -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
