[Python-ideas] About adding a new iteratormethodcalled "shuffled"

Jan Kanis jan.kanis at phil.uu.nl
Thu Mar 26 21:19:16 CET 2009


Just out of curiosity, would doing

l = range(2082)
random.shuffle(l)
random.shuffle(l)

give me (with a high probability) one of those permutations that is
unreachable with a single shuffle? If so, I'd presume you could get
any shuffle (in case you really cared) by calling random.shuffle
repeatedly and reseeding the prng in between.



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