Shuffling a Word

Question

How do we shuffle a word's letters randomly in python?

For example, the word "cat" might be changed into 'act', 'tac' or 'tca'.

How can I do this without using built-in functions?

Answer 1

You can try the following:

import random
word = "cat"
shuffled = list(word)
random.shuffle(shuffled)
shuffled = ''.join(shuffled)
print shuffled