New submission from Eugene Yunak:
random.shuffle operates on a list, and changes it in place. I think returning a
reference to this list, the same one we got in as the argument, is quite useful
and makes it possible to use random.shuffle in chained function calls, e.g.:
somelist.append(''.join(shuffle(list('hello'))))
[i for i in shuffle(list(range(10))) if i%2]
I don't see any good arguments against this, and I couldn't think of a
reasonable test for this — is it necessary to test whether the returned
reference is the same as the one passed in?
I'm open to any discussion or suggestions you might have.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: shuffle_return.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 255971
nosy: Eugene Yunak
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: return from random.shuffle
type: enhancement
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41251/shuffle_return.patch
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