[Python-Dev] About adding a new iterator method called "shuffled"

[Roy Hyunjin Han]

I know that Python has iterator methods called "sorted" and "reversed" and
these are handy shortcuts.


Why not add a new iterator method called "shuffled"?

>>> for x in shuffled(range(5)):
>>>    print x
>>> 3
>>> 1
>>> 2
>>> 0
>>> 4


Currently, a person has to do the following because random.shuffle() does
not return the actual shuffled list.  It is verbose.

>>> import random
>>> x = range(5)
>>> random.shuffle(x)
>>> for x in x:
>>>     print x
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