Python random sequence with seed

Question

I\'m doing this for a school project (so I can\'t use any advanced features) and I\'m using Python 2.6.6.

I have a list of numbers from 1 to 1000 and my seed will be

Answer 1

A simple check on the python docs http://docs.python.org/library/random.html tells you about

random.seed([x])

which you can use to initialize the seed.

To get the items in the order of your initial again, set the seed again and get the random numbers again. You can then use this index to get the content in the list or just use the index for whatever.

You’d just sort the list and it’d be in sorted order again.