Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The closest hack I could come up with was
import random
s = abcdefg
a = []
a.extend(s)
random.shuffle(a)
s = .join(a)
You could use
import random
s = list(abcdefg)
random.shuffle(s)
s
Tim Chase wrote:
While working on a Jumble-esque program, I was trying to get a string
into a character array. Unfortunately, it seems to choke on the following
import random
s = abcefg
random.shuffle(s)
returning
File /usr/lib/python2.3/random.py, line 250, in shuffle
import random
s = abcdefg
data = list(s)
random.shuffle(data)
.join(data)
'bfegacd'
fit you better?
Excellent! Thanks. I kept trying to find something like an
array() function. Too many languages, too little depth.
The program was just a short script to scramble the
[Bryan Olson]
...
For sorting, we had the procedure 'sort', then added the pure
function 'sorted'. We had a 'reverse' procedure, and wisely
added the 'reversed' function.
Hmmm... what we could we possible do about 'shuffle'?
'permuted' is the obvious answer, but that would leave us open to
Does this do what you are looking for?
s = 'abcdefg';
a = [];
a += s;
a;
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']
Ron Griswold
Character TD
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On 2006-01-12, Ron Griswold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This lacks the beauty of most python code, and clearly feels like
there's somethign I'm missing. Is there some method or function
I've overlooked that would convert a string to an array with less
song-and-dance? Thanks,
import
Tim Chase wrote:
The closest hack I could come up with was
import random
s = abcdefg
a = []
a.extend(s)
random.shuffle(a)
s = .join(a)
This lacks the beauty of most python code, and clearly feels like
there's somethign I'm missing. Is there some
