sharing/swapping items between lists

[Aahz]

In article <c569228f-f391-4317-83a2-08621c601c41 at r8g2000yql.googlegroups.com>,
Ross  <ross.jett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'm sorry...my example was probably a bad one. A better example of
>output I would like would be something like [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] and
>then for the leftovers list [7,8,9,10 etc]. What I'm trying to do is
>produce some sort of round robin algorithm for tennis that is
>constrained by the number of courts available each week. So if there
>are only 3 courts available for a singles league and 10 people have
>signed up, 4 players will have a bye each week. I want my algorithm to
>produce unique matchups each week and also give each player the same
>angle?

How about Googling for "round robin algorithm python"?  ;-)
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