> You could go:
>
> def makefunction():
> theletters = uppercase[:26] + ' '
> copyof = list(theletters) # reason: to allow a shuffle
> shuffle(copyof)
> return dict(zip(theletters, copyof))
I like it. Hadn't considered zipping a string with a list:
>>> zip('abc',['r','s','t'])
[('a', 'r'), ('b', 's'), ('c', 't')]
Kirby