CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
Mandy Quan
Mandy Quan

Reputation: 95

Randomize letters in a word

the question asks to have to user enter a one word string, then randomize the place of the letters in the word, for example, "hello" can turn into "elhlo"

import random

def word_jumble():
    word = raw_input("Enter a word: ")
    new_word = ""
    for ch in range(len(word)):
        r = random.randint(0,len(word)-1)
        new_word += word[r]
        word = word.replace(word[r],"",1)
    print new_word

def main():
    word_jumble()

main()

I got the program from someone else, but have no idea how it works. can someone explain to me please? I understand everything before

new_word += word[r]

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5729

Answers (3)

John La Rooy
John La Rooy

Reputation: 304157

If you use a bytearray, you can use random.shuffle directly

import random
word = bytearray(raw_input("Enter a word: "))
random.shuffle(word)

Upvotes: 0

Óscar López
Óscar López

Reputation: 236004

The code is unnecessarily complex, maybe this will be easier to understand:

import random
word = raw_input("Enter a word: ")

charlst = list(word)        # convert the string into a list of characters
random.shuffle(charlst)     # shuffle the list of characters randomly
new_word = ''.join(charlst) # convert the list of characters back into a string

Upvotes: 4

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 309919

r is a randomly selected index in the word, so word[r] is a randomly selected character in the word. What the code does is it selects a random character from word and appends it to new_word (new_word += word[r]). The next line removes the character from the original word.

Upvotes: 1

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