Unsorting(randomizing) a sequence

[Dan Schmidt]

Ole-Kristian Villaboe <olevi at my-deja.com> writes:

| Is there a command to do this? (Can't find one but...)
| I've been writing an algorithm myself, but it's incredibly slow and I
| would like something quicker (of course :) )

This is slower and takes more space than the correct solution already
posted, but it's kind of fun:

def randomize (l):
    l2 = map (lambda x: (whrandom.random(), x), l)
    l2.sort()
    return map (lambda x: x[1], l2)

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