inside-out range function

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On Apr 28, 12:19�am, William Clifford <mr.william.cliff... at gmail.com>
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> On Apr 27, 9:22�pm, Steven D'Aprano
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> <ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:27:07 -0700, William Clifford wrote:
> > > For some reason I thought I needed this code, but it turns out I don't,
> > > really.
> > > I need something weirder. Anyway, maybe someone else could use this.
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> > > def enrag(start, stop=None, step=1):
> > > � � '''Yield a range of numbers from inside-out, evens on left.'''
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> > [snip code]
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> > Interesting.
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> > That's equivalent to a reverse followed by a Monge Shuffle.
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> >http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MongesShuffle.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.or...
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> > I wrote a similar function to do this:
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> > def monge_shuffle(deck):
> > � � if len(deck) % 2: # Odd number of items.
> > � � � � deck[:] = deck[0::2] + deck[1::2][::-1]
> > � � else: # Even number of items.
> > � � � � deck[:] = deck[1::2] + deck[0::2][::-1]
> > � � return deck
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> > >>> list(enrag(20))
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> > [18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19]>>> monge_shuffle(range(20)[::-1])
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> > [18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19]>>> list(enrag(203)) == monge_shuffle(range(203)[::-1])
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> > True
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> > I'm curious what your "something weirder" was.
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> Thanks for the links! Funny, while I worked on this I didn't think of
> looking up card shuffling to see if there might be an algorithms for
> it. I didn't think enrag (or her sister garne) would be unique, but I
> didn't expect they could be useful either. Cool!
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> I weirder I needed was to generate an Ulam spiral sequence like this:
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> [4, 3, 2,
> �5, 0, 1,
> �7, 8, 9]
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> I found a couple of ways, one of which I'm a somewhat happier with.

What's your solution (I got a couple, also).

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