Shuffling a list of objects

Question

I have a list of objects and I want to shuffle them. I thought I could use the random.shuffle method, but this seems to fail when the list is of objects. Is the

Answer 1

you can either use shuffle or sample . both of which come from random module.

import random
def shuffle(arr1):
    n=len(arr1)
    b=random.sample(arr1,n)
    return b

OR

import random
def shuffle(arr1):
    random.shuffle(arr1)
    return arr1