prompt: Could you please write a Python function to randomly split people into groups? It should take a list of names and a number of groups to split them into. The groups should be as even as possible.
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chosen.content: Could you please write a Python function to randomly split people into groups? It should take a list of names and a number of groups to split them into. The groups should be as even as possible.
chosen.role: assistant
chosen.content: Here is a Python function to split strings (names) into groups, keeping them as even as possible. It shuffles the names randomly, then assigns them to groups in the new random sequence.
  
  import random
  
  
  def assign_names(names, num_of_groups):
      random.shuffle(names)
      counter = 0
      assigned_names = []
      for name in names:
          if len(assigned_names) <= counter:
             assigned_names.append([])
          assigned_names[counter].append(name)
          counter = (counter + 1) % num_of_groups
  
      return assigned_names
  
  Note this uses the random library, which generates pseudo-random numbers. This is fine for most purposes, but if you need true randomness (for example, for cryptography or lotteries), you should use random.SystemRandom.
  
  
rejected.role: system
rejected.content: A chat.
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rejected.content: Could you please write a Python function to randomly split people into groups? It should take a list of names and a number of groups to split them into. The groups should be as even as possible.
rejected.role: assistant