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Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically

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Date 2013-05-24 09:47 +0100
Subject Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically
From Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 24 May 2013 09:41, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Peter Brooks
> <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the easiest way to reorder a sequence pseudo-randomly?
> >
> > That is, for a sequence 1,2,3,4 to produce an arbitrary ordering (eg
> > 2,1,4,3) that is different each time.
> >
...
> It works, it produces a unique list for any given index provided, but
> it's not the cleanest or most efficient. But I know someone'll improve
> on it... or tell me I'm an idiot for not taking a more obvious
> approach :)
>
> ChrisA

I think that is pretty much itertools.permutations from the standard
library. The OP should check it out.

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Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 01:14 -0700
  Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 18:37 +1000
  Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 09:47 +0100
  Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 19:11 +1000
    Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-24 15:33 +0100
  Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-24 06:10 -0400
  Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-24 10:52 +0000
    Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-24 07:26 -0400
      Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 06:23 -0700
        Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-24 13:57 +0000
        Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 14:14 +0100
    Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-24 10:33 -0700
      Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-25 18:25 -0700
        Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-25 21:49 -0400
  RE: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-24 18:00 +0300
    Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 12:01 -0700
      RE: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-25 00:33 +0300
        Re: Simple algorithm question - how to reorder a sequence economically Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 17:28 -0700

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