[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):
Nice. You can have functions inside functions. However I think scramble_word() deserves being a callable function by itself. Can a "sub-function" be called directly from outside the defining function? > 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__) Thank you for your version of the scrambler. -- If you're posting through Google read <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
