On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > If shuffle is an "in place" function and returns none how do i obtain the > values from it. > > from random import shuffle > > a = [1,2,3,4,5] > b = shuffle(a) > print(b[:3]) > > For example here i just want to slice the first 3 numbers which should be > shuffled. However you can't slice a noneType object that b becomes. > > So how do i get shuffle to give me my numbers? >
In place means that it changes the list. Try print(a) after the shuffle. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
