Cutting a deck of cards
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sun May 26 14:21:29 EDT 2013
In article <4d02f46f-8264-41bf-a254-d1c20469626e at googlegroups.com>,
RVic <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have a deck of cards, and I shuffle them
>
> import random
> cards = []
> decks = 6
> cards = list(range(13 * 4 * decks))
> random.shuffle(cards)
>
> So now I have an array of cards. I would like to cut these cards at some
> random point (between 1 and 13 * 4 * decks - 1, moving the lower half of that
> to the top half of the cards array.
>
> For some reason, I can't see how this can be done (I know that it must be a
> simple line or two in Python, but I am really stuck here). Anyone have any
> direction they can give me on this? Thanks, RVic, python newbie
import random
i = random.randrange(len(cards))
cut1 = cards[:i]
cut2 = cards[i:]
I haven't thought too much about the boundary conditions, but that's the
general idea.
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