Inplace shuffle function returns none

[Sayth Renshaw]

If shuffle is an "in place" function and returns none how do i obtain the values from it.

from random import shuffle

a = [1,2,3,4,5]
b = shuffle(a)
print(b[:3])

For example here i just want to slice the first 3 numbers which should be shuffled. However you can't slice a noneType object that b becomes.

So how do i get shuffle to give me my numbers?

Cheers

Sayth