On 09/13/2014 05:47 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: > Here is a screenshot of me trying Dave Briccetti's quiz program from > the shell and it (the shuffle command) works. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-yNEpGk3g > http://i.imgur.com/vlpVa5i.jpg > > 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 > nums=list(range(1,11)) > shuffle(nums) > print (nums) > > I get: > No module named 'shuffle'
You can do it two ways: Refer to it as random.shuffle() or from random import shuffle I tend to use the first method (random.shuffle). That way it prevents my local namespace from getting polluted with random symbols imported from modules. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
