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authorWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-02-12T16·58+0000
committerWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-02-12T16·58+0000
commitfabf1c9334a86d55be133da851cafccc9e6319fe (patch)
treee5c07cbe676c4955d9a48742d00e0081b16b3446 /scratch/data_structures_and_algorithms/shuffle.py
parent5ec5a6da8cbfe3c35558fd2c17ef779b5d0ccb54 (diff)
Tidy up structure of briefcase
I had a spare fifteen minutes and decided that I should tidy up my
monorepo. The work of tidying up is not finished; this is a small step in the
right direction.

TL;DR
- Created a tools directory
- Created a scratch directory (see README.md for more information)
- Added README.md to third_party
- Renamed delete_dotfile_symlinks -> symlinkManager
- Packaged symlinkManager as an executable symlink-mgr using buildGo
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+import random
+
+
+def get_random(floor, ceiling):
+    return random.randrange(floor, ceiling + 1)
+
+
+# shuffle_in_place :: [a] -> IO ()
+def shuffle_in_place(xs):
+    """Fisher-Yates algorithm. Notice that shuffling here is the same as
+    selecting a random permutation of the input set, `xs`."""
+    n = len(xs) - 1
+    for i in range(len(xs)):
+        r = get_random(i, n)
+        xs[i], xs[r] = xs[r], xs[i]
+    return xs
+
+
+# shuffle :: [a] -> [a]
+def shuffle_not_in_place(xs):
+    result = []
+
+    while xs:
+        i = get_random(0, len(xs) - 1)
+        x = xs.pop(i)
+        result.append(x)
+
+    return result
+
+
+xs = [x for x in range(9)]
+print(xs)
+# print(shuffle_not_in_place(xs))
+print(shuffle_in_place(xs[:]))