In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My version is similar to Just one: > > from random import shuffle > > def scramble_text(text): > """Return the words in input text string scrambled > except for the first and last letter.""" > def scramble_word(word): > if len(word) < 4: return word > core = list(word[1:-1]) > shuffle(core) > return word[0] + "".join(core) + word[-1] > > return " ".join(map(scramble_word, text.split())) > > print scramble_text(scramble_text.__doc__)
Your text split behaves completely different from the original; I think it was intentional that any puntuation wasn't affected. Btw. I find the use of a nested function here completely bogus: you don't need the surrounding scope. Just -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
