#!/usr/bin/python """ The Fisher–Yates shuffle is an algorithm for generating a random permutation of a finite sequence. For more details visit wikipedia/Fischer-Yates-Shuffle. """ import random def FYshuffle(LIST): for i in range(len(LIST)): a = random.randint(0, len(LIST) - 1) b = random.randint(0, len(LIST) - 1) LIST[a], LIST[b] = LIST[b], LIST[a] return LIST if __name__ == "__main__": integers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] strings = ["python", "says", "hello", "!"] print("Fisher-Yates Shuffle:") print("List", integers, strings) print("FY Shuffle", FYshuffle(integers), FYshuffle(strings))