greenflame wrote: > Zhang Fan wrote: >> On 30 May 2006 20:18:19 -0700, greenflame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Second of all, I would like to have >>> other methods of shuffling, prefererably riffle shuffling and just >>> plain randomly arranging the elements of the list. >> The random module has a `shuffle' method. It "Shuffle the sequence x >> in place". >> It may be help for you > > I am sorry but this does not help much. In my version of python (2.3) > this method does not seem to exist. Also from the documentation, it > seems that this method would give a random number. > You should update your Python then ;) It's a very nice method:
>>> import random >>> random.seed() >>> >>> list = [1,21,23,4,5] >>> random.shuffle(list) >>> print list [5, 4, 23, 1, 21] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
