random iteration in Python

Question

When you want to iterate sequentially over a list of numbers you will write:

for i in range(1000):
  # do something with i

But what if you

Answer 1

Here's a different approach to iterating a list in random order. This doesn't modify the original list unlike the solutions that use shuffle()

lst=['a','b','c','d','e','f']
for value in sorted(lst,key=lambda _: random.random()):
    print value

or:

for value in random.sample(lst,len(lst)):
    print value