Best way to randomize a list of strings in Python

>>> import random
>>> x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4]
>>> random.shuffle(x)
>>> x
[4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3]
>>> random.shuffle(x)
>>> x
[3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4]

Looks like this is the simplest way, if not the most truly random (this question more fully explains the limitations): http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.shuffle

Given a string item, here is a one-liner:

''.join([str(w) for w in random.sample(item, len(item))])

You'll have to read the strings into an array and then use a shuffling algorithm. I recommend Fisher-Yates shuffle

In python 3.8 you can use the walrus to help cram it into a couple of lines First you have to create a list from the string and store it into a variable. Then you can use random to shuffle it. Then just join the list back into a string.

random.shuffle(x := list("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"))
x = "".join(x)