Shuffle two list at once with same order

Question

I\'m using the nltk library\'s movie_reviews corpus which contains a large number of documents. My task is get predictive performance of these reviews

Answer 1

Shuffle an arbitray number of lists simultaneously.

from random import shuffle

def shuffle_list(*ls):
  l =list(zip(*ls))

  shuffle(l)
  return zip(*l)

a = [0,1,2,3,4]
b = [5,6,7,8,9]

a1,b1 = shuffle_list(a,b)
print(a1,b1)

a = [0,1,2,3,4]
b = [5,6,7,8,9]
c = [10,11,12,13,14]
a1,b1,c1 = shuffle_list(a,b,c)
print(a1,b1,c1)

Output:

$ (0, 2, 4, 3, 1) (5, 7, 9, 8, 6)
$ (4, 3, 0, 2, 1) (9, 8, 5, 7, 6) (14, 13, 10, 12, 11)

Note:
objects returned by shuffle_list() are tuples.

P.S. shuffle_list() can also be applied to numpy.array()

a = np.array([1,2,3])
b = np.array([4,5,6])

a1,b1 = shuffle_list(a,b)
print(a1,b1)

Output:

$ (3, 1, 2) (6, 4, 5)