Thanks Kent. That is what i did the first time around but it didn't work ... but that was do to something else that was not working in the script.... hehe.... of course, this just shuffles the saved copy of the list which is egg-zactly what i needed "duh" ... sorry... gosh... <red face=on>
-kevin-- On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > kevin parks wrote: >> it seems to me that i need something like itertools cycle, except that >> i need to keep track of when i have exhausted my list and then call >> random.shuffle() on my sequence. >> >> def cycle(iterable): >> saved = [] >> for element in iterable: >> yield element >> saved.append(element) >> while saved: > random.shuffle(saved) ############### >> for element in saved: >> yield element > > Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
