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

Make sure you are not naming your source file random.py, and that there is not a file in your working directory called random.pyc.. either could cause your program to try and import your local random.py file instead of pythons random module.