Two random lists from one list

[Chris Hulan]

On Mar 11, 1:21 pm, noydb <jenn.du... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am just looking to see if there is perhaps a more efficient way of
> doing this below (works -- creates two random teams from a list of
> players).  Just want to see what the experts come up with for means of
> learning how to do things better.
>
> Thanks for any responses!
>
> ###
> import random
> players =
> teamA = random.sample(players, 4)
> print teamA
> teamB = []
> for p in players:
>     if p not in teamA:
>         teamB.append(p)
> print teamB

How about:

players = ["jake", "mike", "matt", "rich", "steve", "tom", "joe",
"jay"]
random.shuffle(players)
teamA, TeamB = players[:4],players[4:]