Python 2 and Python 3, the two versions of the programming language in widespread use, include a function called shuffle that can randomize a list or another sequence of data.

As with so many other things, creating lists in Python is extremely straight forward! All you need to do is to place the items that make up your list inside square brackets, separated by a comma.

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate" [1] automatically, whereas the ...