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

Question

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

What's the best way to scramble them in Python?

Answer 1

Use the random.shuffle() function:

random.shuffle(thelist)

Answer 2

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 3

import random
random.shuffle(thelist)

Note, this shuffles the list in-place.

Answer 4

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

Your result will (hopefully!) vary.