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
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