How do you sort a name list and list in random order?

[Carsten Schultz]

Frank & Janny Plaza:
> I am trying to write a program in which the users will each enter
> their names and when all names have been entered, I want to randomly
> sort this list of names several times
[...]
> Thanks, Cisco

Hi Frank, Janny or Cisco!

My first idea was the following:

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import random

def shuffle(l):
    randomly_tagged_list = [(random.random(), x) for x in l]
    randomly_tagged_list.sort()
    return [x for (r, x) in randomly_tagged_list]


t=["Anna", "Berta", "Caesar", "Doris"]

print shuffle(t)
print shuffle(t)
print t
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You may want to also have a look at random.shuffle, however.

Greetings,

Carsten

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