Does anyone know a way to scramble the elements in a list?

Question

thelist = ['a','b','c','d']

How I can to scramble them in Python?

Answer 1

>>> import random
>>> thelist = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> random.shuffle(thelist)
>>> thelist
['d', 'a', 'c', 'b']

Your result will (hopefully!) vary.

Answer 2

import random
random.shuffle(thelist)

Note, this shuffles the list in-place.

Answer 3

Use the random.shuffle() function:

random.shuffle(thelist)

Answer 4

Use the shuffle function from the random module:

>>> from random import shuffle
>>> thelist = ['a','b','c','d']
>>> shuffle(thelist)
>>> thelist
['c', 'a', 'b', 'd']

Answer 5

in-place shuffle (modifies v, returns None)

random.shuffle(v)

not in-place shuffle (if you don't want to modify the original array, creates a shuffled copy)

v = random.sample(v, len(v))