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#!/usr/bin/python
"""
The Fisher-Yates shuffle is an algorithm for generating a random permutation of a
finite sequence.
For more details visit
wikipedia/Fischer-Yates-Shuffle.
"""
import random
from typing import Any
def fisher_yates_shuffle(data: list) -> list[Any]:
"""
>>> import random
>>> from unittest.mock import patch
>>> with patch('random.randint', side_effect=[0, 3, 1, 2, 2, 0, 3, 1]):
... fisher_yates_shuffle(["python", "says", "hello", "!"])
['says', 'python', '!', 'hello']
"""
for _ in range(len(data)):
a = random.randint(0, len(data) - 1)
b = random.randint(0, len(data) - 1)
data[a], data[b] = data[b], data[a]
return data
if __name__ == "__main__":
integers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
strings = ["python", "says", "hello", "!"]
print("Fisher-Yates Shuffle:")
print("List", integers, strings)
print("FY Shuffle", fisher_yates_shuffle(integers), fisher_yates_shuffle(strings))