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You have to strip the newlines out of the word.

Basically, your text file is actually formatted as a word on each line and a '\n' character at the end of each line. When you call random.shuffle(question_list), your are shuffling the characters of the word along with the newline character, so the newline is also shuffled! When you print out the 'shuffled' word, Python prints the word out with the newline, so you get the word randomly split between two lines.

In order to solve this issue, you can probably use the str.strip() function (but that would require you cast the list to a string) or just add this to below question_list = list(words[i]):