That doc note should surely be removed. Perhaps it's an artifact from some earlier shuffle algorithm.
The current algorithm (which is simple, well known, and which produces all permutations with equal probability) only calls the RNG len(x) - 1 times. Terry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
