Re: mix up a string

[rbt]

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> rbt wrote:
> 
>>What's the best way to take a string such as 'dog' and mix it up? You 
>>know, like the word jumble in the papers? ODG. I thought something like 
>>mix = random.shuffle('dog') would do it, but it won't. Any tips?
> 
> 
> py> def shuffled(s):
> ... l = list(s)
> ... random.shuffle(l)
> ... return ''.join(l)
> 
> 
> Reinhold

Thanks guys, this works great. I forgot that shuffle needs a sequence... 
duh ;)
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mix up a string

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

rbt wrote:
> What's the best way to take a string such as 'dog' and mix it up? You 
> know, like the word jumble in the papers? ODG. I thought something like 
> mix = random.shuffle('dog') would do it, but it won't. Any tips?

py> def shuffled(s):
... l = list(s)
... random.shuffle(l)
... return ''.join(l)


Reinhold
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mix up a string

[Skip Montanaro]

rbt> mix = random.shuffle('dog')

Try:

lst = list('dog')
random.shuffle(lst)
print "".join(lst)

Skip
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

mix up a string

[rbt]

What's the best way to take a string such as 'dog' and mix it up? You 
know, like the word jumble in the papers? ODG. I thought something like 
mix = random.shuffle('dog') would do it, but it won't. Any tips?

Thanks,
rbt
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list