Shuffle

[Michael Torrie]

On 09/13/2014 05:47 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> Here is a screenshot of me trying Dave Briccetti's quiz program from
> the shell and it (the shuffle command) works.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-yNEpGk3g
> http://i.imgur.com/vlpVa5i.jpg
> 
> Two questions
> If you import random, do you need to "from random import shuffle"?
> 
> Why does shuffle work from the command line and not when I add it to
> this program?
> 
> import random
> import shuffle
> nums=list(range(1,11))
> shuffle(nums)
> print (nums)
> 
> I get:
> No module named 'shuffle'

You can do it two ways:
Refer to it as random.shuffle()

or

from random import shuffle

I tend to use the first method (random.shuffle).  That way it prevents
my local namespace from getting polluted with random symbols imported
from modules.