Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a caveat from past experience...while the OP was talking
> about lists, for future reference random.shuffle() chokes on
> strings (and possibly tuples). It requires the ability to edit
> the target/parameter in place...a functionality that strings
> don't provide.
You can always use array.array('c'), eg
>>> import random
>>> import array
>>> L = array.array('c')
>>> L.fromstring("hello")
>>> L
array('c', 'hello')
>>> random.shuffle(L)
>>> L
array('c', 'elohl')
>>> L.tostring()
'elohl'
Which is some way towards a mutable string...
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