{"id":25016,"date":"2022-12-07T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-do-random-shuffling-in-python\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:01:31","slug":"solved-how-to-do-random-shuffling-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-do-random-shuffling-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to do random shuffling in Python?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-55952883\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"55952883\" data-parentid=\"55952769\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3\/library\/random.html#random.shuffle\">random.shuffle<\/a> is your friend, according to the docs<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>random.shuffle(x[, random]) .<br \/>\n  Shuffle the sequence x in place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre><code>import random\n\n#Convert string to list of chars\nli = list('ABDEB')\n\nfor i in range(5):\n    #Shuffle the list, the last shuffled list is shuffled every time\n    random.shuffle(li)\n    #Convert list to string again and print\n    print(''.join(li))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Output might look like<\/p>\n<pre><code>DBEBA\nABEBD\nBABDE\nBADEB\nBDAEB\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Or you can start with the same base string every time<\/p>\n<pre><code>import random\n\nfor i in range(5):\n    li = list('ABDEB')\n    random.shuffle(li)\n    print(''.join(li))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>For shuffle with replacement, you can actually use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/2\/library\/itertools.html#itertools.combinations_with_replacement\">itertools.combibations_with_replacement<\/a> and it will give you <code>all<\/code> possible combinations in one go, then use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.python.org\/3\/library\/random.html#random.choice\">random.choce<\/a> to pick an element from there<\/p>\n<p>From the docs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iterable, r)<br \/>\n  Return r length subsequences of elements from the input iterable allowing individual elements to be repeated more than once.    <\/p>\n<p>random.choice(seq)<br \/>\n  Return a random element from the non-empty sequence seq. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre><code>from itertools import combinations_with_replacement\nimport random\n\nli = list('ABDEB')\n\n#Get all possible combinations with repetitions\nres = [''.join(item) for item in combinations_with_replacement(li,len(li))]\n\n#Use random.choice to pick a element from res\nfor i in range(5):\n    print(random.choice(res))\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Output will look like<\/p>\n<pre><code>DDEEE\nABBBE\nADDDD\nBBDDB\nAADDB\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">12<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to do random shuffling in Python? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] random.shuffle is your friend, according to the docs random.shuffle(x[, random]) . 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