permutation(...) method of mtrand.RandomState instance
permutation(x)
Randomly permute a sequence, or return a permuted range.
If `x` is a multi-dimensional array, it is only shuffled along its
first index.
Parameters
----------
x : int or array_like
If `x` is an integer, randomly permute ``np.arange(x)``.
If `x` is an array, make a copy and shuffle the elements
randomly.
Returns
-------
out : ndarray
Permuted sequence or array range.
Examples
--------
>>>np.random.permutation(10)
array([1, 7, 4, 3, 0, 9, 2, 5, 8, 6])
>>>np.random.permutation([1, 4, 9, 12, 15])
array([15, 1, 9, 4, 12])
>>>arr = np.arange(9).reshape((3, 3))
>>>np.random.permutation(arr)
array([[6, 7, 8],
[0, 1, 2],
[3, 4, 5]])