Cannot shuffle list in Python

Question

This is my list:

biglist = [ {'title':'U2','link':'u2.com'}, {'title':'beatles','link':'beatles.com'} ]
print random.shuffle(biglist)

that doesn't work! It returns none.

Related/dupe: [Why does `random.shuffle` return None?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17649875/why-does-random-shuffle-return-none) — Aran-Fey, Jun 14 '18 at 17:42

Blixt · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-07T08:02:40.797

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random.shuffle shuffles the list, it does not return a new list. So check biglist, not the result of random.shuffle.

edited Oct 07 '09 at 08:02

answered Oct 07 '09 at 07:55

Blixt

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This is a really common mistake, I used to do it a lot with .reverse() and .sort() – Kimvais Oct 07 '09 at 08:09
Me too, hooray for `reversed()` and `sorted()`. – Greg Hewgill Oct 08 '09 at 00:27

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