[Tutor] 15 puzzle

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
> > Of course, first I have to figure out how to scramble 
> > the buttons in order to have an actual game going.  
> 
> Create a list of numbers
> generate a random index into the list using randint()
> move that number into a new list and delete from the original.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> baselist = newList = []

Oops. Assign by reference, remember?

> for i in range(15): baseList.append(str(i))

So this appends to both. (And later on as well).

Use random.shuffle, i.e.

import random
buttons = range(15)
random.shuffle(buttons)
print buttons

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Remco Gerlich