program that jumble letters in word

Question

I was wondering how to make a program where the user types a word and then the program jumbles the letters in the word in a random way.

I've thought a lot about this and failed. I made the program below but its not good at all because I want to jumble the letters and this program just randomly assigns each index one of the letters. This means the same letter can repeat itself several times, like for example: Input: apple. Output: ppppp

import random

print('Type a word!')
i = 0
wordJ = ''

word = input()
word = str(word)
while i < len(word):
    wordJ = wordJ + word[random.randrange(len(word))]
    i = i + 1

print(wordJ)

You already have the random module, just use `random.shuffle`. — Morgan Thrapp, Sep 27 '16 at 17:54
Is this homework? This feels like homework... Specially with the *"I was wondering how..."* falls in line with the *"I was teaching myself..."* and learning how to shuffle.. see http://stackoverflow.com/a/473983/1111028 — scaryrawr, Sep 27 '16 at 17:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 18:04

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Once you have the string in word you could shuffle it like this

from random import shuffle
word = list(word)
shuffle(word)
word = "".join(word)
print(word)

answered Sep 27 '16 at 18:04

saurabh baid

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import random print('Type a word!') word = input() word = list(word) random.shuffle(list(word)) wordJ = ''.join(word) print(wordJ) – HeliumBalloon Sep 27 '16 at 18:42
why does it not work to use enter to change row – HeliumBalloon Sep 27 '16 at 18:45
I was wondering why this solution does not shuffle the word but it returns the word unchanged – HeliumBalloon Sep 27 '16 at 18:46
It works check here https://repl.it/Dipx/0 – saurabh baid Sep 27 '16 at 18:49
okey, thank you it works :) when i tried to type the program above its all on the same row, why is that? i didnt type it all on the same row – HeliumBalloon Sep 27 '16 at 18:58
Dont know, may be comments are not capable to have multiline code, In case my answer works for then you can upvote and accept as answer. – saurabh baid Sep 27 '16 at 19:01
okay i think i have done that now :) – HeliumBalloon Sep 27 '16 at 19:18

bmurr · Answer 2 · 2016-09-28T13:13:32.330

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import random

word = input()
word = list(word)
random.shuffle(word)

wordJ = ''.join(word)
print(wordJ)

edited Sep 28 '16 at 13:13

answered Sep 27 '16 at 18:03

bmurr

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Did you even try this? – SiHa Sep 28 '16 at 11:47
Nope, I just wanted quick rep. There, I fixed it for you. – bmurr Sep 28 '16 at 13:12

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