python script shuffle file with lines

Question

I have this script for years, I use it to scramble words in a text file. But I have a file line by line, and the script is shuffling but it deletes the line break he's leaving everything on the same line, do you have any solution for this? I tried 'sort -r' but it just does the reverse, it doesn't shuffle.

import random

file = open('myfile.txt', 'r')
text = file.read()
file.close()

text = text.split()
random.shuffle(text)
text = ' '.join(text)

print(text)

Hint: what does `text = ' '.join(text)` do? Could you replace `' '` with something else? Or maybe print your text a different way, without using `str.join()` at all? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Dec 11 '22 at 20:32

Teddy · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-11T20:52:42.693

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If i understand correctly this should solve your issue:

import random

final_text = ""

with open("myfile.txt", "r") as file:
    lines = file.readlines()
    for i in range(len(lines)):
        lines[i] = lines[i].replace("\n", "")
    random.shuffle(lines)
    final_text = "\n".join(lines)

print(final_text)

edited Dec 11 '22 at 20:52

answered Dec 11 '22 at 20:34

Teddy

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Teddy Thank you for your attention, but it did not scramble. – David Kennedy Dec 11 '22 at 20:40
It does scramble the words. Should it scramble the letters? – Teddy Dec 11 '22 at 20:42
Should the lines be scrambled and still have the same words in it or should the words also shuffled? – Teddy Dec 11 '22 at 20:45
Yes, I posted an answer above, with an example – David Kennedy Dec 11 '22 at 20:47
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Ok, i have edited my answer i hope this time i understood the question correctly. – Teddy Dec 11 '22 at 20:53
Congratulations Teddy! Solved, thank you! – David Kennedy Dec 11 '22 at 21:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 11 '22 at 21:50

You can also use read().splitlines() to add all lines as element in list without trailing newline and print unpacked list using starred expression with \n as separator:

from random import shuffle

with open('myfile.txt') as file: text = file.read().splitlines(); shuffle(text)

print(*text, sep='\n')

python script shuffle file with lines

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