While working on a Jumble-esque program, I was trying to get a string into a character array. Unfortunately, it seems to choke on the following
import random s = "abcefg" random.shuffle(s) returning File "/usr/lib/python2.3/random.py", line 250, in shuffle x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i] TypeError: object doesn't support item assignment The closest hack I could come up with was import random s = "abcdefg" a = [] a.extend(s) random.shuffle(a) s = "".join(a) This lacks the beauty of most python code, and clearly feels like there's somethign I'm missing. Is there some method or function I've overlooked that would convert a string to an array with less song-and-dance? Thanks, -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list