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Re: Shuffle

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> Two questions
> If you import random, do you need to "from random import shuffle"?
>
> Why does shuffle work from the command line and not when I add it to
> this program?
>
> import random
> import shuffle

To understand this, you need to understand what the 'from' import does:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#more-on-modules

It's not the same as "import shuffle", but is a variant of "import random".

ChrisA

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