TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing

Convert an iterable to a list may have a cost. Instead, to get the the first item, you can use:

next(iter(keys))

Or, if you want to iterate over all items, you can use:

items = iter(keys)
while True:
    try:
        item = next(items)
    except StopIteration as e:
        pass # finish

You're passing the result of somedict.keys() to the function. In Python 3, dict.keys doesn't return a list, but a set-like object that represents a view of the dictionary's keys and (being set-like) doesn't support indexing.

To fix the problem, use list(somedict.keys()) to collect the keys, and work with that.

Clearly you're passing in d.keys() to your shuffle function. Probably this was written with python2.x (when d.keys() returned a list). With python3.x, d.keys() returns a dict_keys object which behaves a lot more like a set than a list. As such, it can't be indexed.

The solution is to pass list(d.keys()) (or simply list(d)) to shuffle.

In Python 2 dict.keys() return a list, whereas in Python 3 it returns a generator.

You could only iterate over it's values else you may have to explicitly convert it to a list i.e. pass it to a list function.