On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 08:54:16PM +0300, Ram Rachum wrote:
> When writing some code now, I needed to produce a shuffled version of
> `range(10, 10 ** 5)`.
>
> This is one way to do it:
>
> shuffled_numbers = list(range(10, 10 ** 5))
> random.shuffle(shuffled_numbers)
>
>
> I don't like it because (1) it's too imperative and (2) I'm calling the
> list "shuffled" even before it's shuffled.
This is easily solved with a three-line helper:
def shuffled(iterable):
L = list(iterable)
random.shuffle(L)
return L
I have implemented this probably a half a dozen times, and I expect
others have too. I agree with Alex that this would make a nice addition
to the random module.
--
Steven
_______________________________________________
Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org
To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/
Message archived at
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/47JMNMYPEETQFKPDK4OVLGM2IXCQ4GIA/
Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
