Inplace shuffle function returns none

John Gordon gordon at panix.com
Tue Oct 18 17:35:55 EDT 2016


In <9d24f23c-b578-4029-ab80-f117599e2ca7 at googlegroups.com> Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue at gmail.com> writes:

> So why can't i assign the result slice to a variable b?

Because shuffle() modifies the list directly, and returns None.
It does NOT return the shuffled list.

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