shuffle the lines of a large file

[Simon Brunning]

On 7 Mar 2005 06:38:49 -0800, gry at ll.mit.edu <gry at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, what you ultimately want is to be able to extract
> a random ("representative?") subset of sentences.

If this is what's wanted, then perhaps some variation on this cookbook
recipe might do the trick:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/59865

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