Need Help in Scrambling! Thank you

pazzi · #1: September 29th, 2008, 05:06 AM

I would like to make a code in which I scramble the words in the middle of a sentence so the first and last letter remain the same.

example: The gentleman gave his seat to the lady
= The geltneamn gvae his saet to the lday

please inform me how you do it, so I can understand how to do one.

thank you!

bvdet · #2: September 29th, 2008, 09:56 AM

random.shuffle and string slicing is ideal for this task.

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 import random
 
def scramble(w):

    mid = list(w[1:-1])

    random.shuffle(mid)

    return w[0]+''.join(mid)+w[-1]

Now all you need is another function to break apart the sentence by words, process each word, and rejoin. Example:

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 s = 'Mr. Harvey was notorious for his tendency to engage in endless circumlocution when a simple, brief explanation would suffice.'

print process(s)
 
>>> Mr. Heavry was nrutooois for his tedcnney to eggnae in esldens citcuuirlmocon wehn a smlpie, beirf eltnioaaxpn wluod suffice.

pazzi · #3: September 29th, 2008, 05:12 PM

Thank You very much!

aberry · #4: October 3rd, 2008, 07:50 AM

yes, it works fine...
but be sure to strip comma, semicolon char with word...
like in string
str1= "authors responsible for the design, creation, and management "
str1.split() will give
['authors', 'responsible', 'for', 'the', 'design,', 'creation,', 'and', 'management']

so strip comma in string "creation," and then pass to function :)

aberry · #5: October 3rd, 2008, 12:38 PM

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