In <e1d9a80e-6c62-49ba-b946-695150a0d...@googlegroups.com> Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> writes:
> If shuffle is an "in place" function and returns none how do i obtain > the values from it. The values are still in the original object -- variable "a" in your example. > 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? a = [1,2,3,4,5] shuffle(a) print(a[:3]) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list