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i want to shuffle the elements of an array without using random and shuffle functions.any one please help me.
ex:
input:a[1,2,3,4,5]
ouput:a[2,5,3,1,4]
Aug 17 '07 #1
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i want to shuffle the elements of an array without using random and shuffle functions.any one please help me.
ex:
input:a[1,2,3,4,5]
ouput:a[2,5,3,1,4]
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  1. >>> numList = range(25)
  2. >>> numList
  3. [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24]
  4. >>> dd = dict(zip(map(str, numList),numList))
  5. >>> [int(k) for k in dd.keys()]
  6. [24, 20, 21, 22, 23, 1, 0, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 9, 8, 11, 10, 13, 12, 15, 14, 17, 16, 19, 18]
  7. >>> 
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