#!/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))