# File: random-example-4.py

import random

try:
    # available in Python 2.0 and later
    shuffle = random.shuffle
except AttributeError:
    def shuffle(x):
        for i in xrange(len(x)-1, 0, -1):
            # pick an element in x[:i+1] with which to exchange x[i]
            j = int(random.random() * (i+1))
            x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i]

cards = range(52)

shuffle(cards)

myhand = cards[:5]

print myhand

## $ python random-example-3.py
## [4, 8, 40, 12, 30]