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

 

[Skip Montanaro]

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

Try:

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

Skip

 

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

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

 

[rbt]

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