One of the first chain emails I ever received was about a supposed Cambridge  University study that suggests your brain can read words no matter what order the letters are in, as long as the first and last letters of each word are correct.

Your task is to **create a function that can take any string and randomly jumble the letters within each word while leaving the first and last letters of the word in place.**

For example,
    
    mixwords('Winter is coming') // returns 'Wntier is cminog' or 'Wtiner is conimg'
    mixwords('Hey, friends!') // returns 'Hey, fierdns!' or 'Hey, fernids!'

* All punctuation should remain in place
* Words smaller than 3 letters should not change
* Letters must be randomly moved (and so calling the function multiple times with the same string should return different values
* Parameters that are not strings should return undefined

The tests do the following things to ensure a valid string is returned:
    
1. Check that the string returned is not equal to the string passed (you may have to revalidate the solution if your function randomly returns the same string)
2. Check that first and last letters of words remain in place
3. Check that punctuation remains in place
4. Checks string length remains the same
5. Checks the function returns `undefined` for non-strings
6. Checks that word interiors (the letters between the first and last) maintain the same letters, albeit in a different order
7. Checks that letters are randomly assigned.

Source: codewars | Difficulty: EASY
Tags: Fundamentals

Starter code: def mix_words(s):
	

Solutions:
import re
from random import sample

def mix_words(string):
	return re.sub('(?<=[a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z]{2,})(?=[a-zA-Z])', lambda match: ''.join(sample(match.group(1), len(match.group(1)))), string)


from re import sub
from random import shuffle

def scramble(m):
	s = list(m.group())
	shuffle(s)
	return ''.join(s)

def mix_words(string):
	return sub('\\B\\w+\\B', scramble, string)


import random
import re
import numpy as np

def mix_words(text):
	words_list = text.split()
	result_list = []
	for word in words_list:
		punctuation = ''.join(re.findall('\\W', word))
		text_list = [x for x in word]
		blank_list = ['' for x in range(len(word))]
		lst = [x for x in range(1, len(text_list) - (len(punctuation) + 1))]
		lst2 = lst[:]
		if len(lst) > 1:
			while np.array_equal(lst, lst2):
				random.shuffle(lst2)
			j = 0
			for i in range(len(word)):
				if i == 0:
					blank_list[i] = text_list[i]
				elif len(punctuation) > 0 and (text_list[i] in punctuation or text_list[i + 1] in punctuation):
					blank_list[i] = text_list[i]
				elif len(punctuation) == 0 and i == len(word) - 1:
					blank_list[i] = text_list[i]
				else:
					blank_list[i] = text_list[lst2[j]]
					j += 1
			new_text = ''.join(blank_list)
			result_list.append(new_text)
		else:
			result_list.append(word)
	result = ''.join([item + ' ' for item in result_list]).strip()
	if (len(lst) > 2) & (result == text):
		result = mix_words(text)
	return result


import random
import re

def sub(m):
	s = m.group()
	xs = list(s[1:-1])
	mid = list(s[1:-1])
	while mid == xs:
		random.shuffle(mid)
	return s[0] + ''.join(mid) + s[-1]

def mix_words(s):
	if not isinstance(s, str):
		return None
	return re.sub('[a-z]{4,}', sub, s, flags=re.I)


import re
from random import shuffle

def mix_words(string):

	def mix(s):
		s = list(s)
		shuffle(s)
		return ''.join(s)
	return re.sub('(\\w)(\\w{2,})(\\w)', lambda m: m.group(1) + mix(m.group(2)) + m.group(3), string)


from random import shuffle
import re

def scrambler(m):
	lst = list(m.group())
	shuffle(lst)
	return ''.join(lst)

def mix_words(s):
	if isinstance(s, str):
		return re.sub('(?<=\\w)\\w{2,}(?=\\w)', scrambler, s)


import re
from random import sample

def mix_words(strng):
	if type(strng) != str:
		return None
	return re.sub('[A-Za-z]{4,}', fu, strng)

def fu(w):
	w = w.group()
	r = w[1:-1]
	while r == w[1:-1]:
		r = ''.join(sample(r, len(r)))
	return w[0] + r + w[-1]


def mix_words(words):
	import re, random

	def slacrbme(word):
		mid = [c for c in word[1:-1]]
		random.shuffle(mid)
		return word[0] + ''.join(mid) + word[-1]
	return re.sub('(\\w{3,})', lambda m: slacrbme(m.groups()[0]), words)


from random import shuffle

def mix_words(s):
	if type(s) != str:
		return 'undefined'
	else:
		splitter = s.split(' ')
		for (i, word) in enumerate(splitter):
			punctuation = not word[-1].isalpha()
			if len(word) > 3 + punctuation:
				middle = list(word[1:-1 - punctuation])
				while middle == list(word[1:-1 - punctuation]):
					shuffle(middle)
				splitter[i] = word[0] + ''.join(middle) + word[-1 - punctuation:]
		return ' '.join(splitter)