Shuffle ordering of some rows in numpy array

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I want to shuffle the ordering of only some rows in a numpy array. These rows will always be continuous (e.g. shuffling rows 23-80). The number of elements in each row can vary from 1 (such that the array is actually 1D) to 100.

Below is example code to demonstrate how I see the method shuffle_rows() could work. How would I design such a method to do this shuffling efficiently?

import numpy as np
>>> a = np.arange(20).reshape(4, 5)
>>> a
array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
       [10, 11, 12, 13, 14],
       [15, 16, 17, 18, 19]])

>>> shuffle_rows(a, [1, 3]) # including rows 1, 2 and 3 in the shuffling
array([[ 0,  1,  2,  3,  4],
       [15, 16, 17, 18, 19],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
       [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]])
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