#!/usr/bin/python # encoding=utf8 """ 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))