How to randomly partition a list into n nearly equal parts?

Question

I have read the answers to the Slicing a list into n nearly-equal-length partitions [duplicate] question.

This is the accepted answer:

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Answer 1

Complete 2018 solution (python 3.6):

import random 
def partition (list_in, n):
    random.shuffle(list_in)
    return [list_in[i::n] for i in range(n)]

Beware! this may mutate your original list