[Tutor] cycle w/ shuffle

[kevin parks]

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, tutor-request at python.org 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