David C Ullrich enlightened us with: > I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for > _shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I > guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use > DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random numbers.
This is often done in database queries that need to randomize the data ;-) Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list