Cutting a deck of cards
Marc Christiansen
usenetmail at solar-empire.de
Sun May 26 15:36:42 EDT 2013
Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 10:52:14 -0700
>> Subject: Cutting a deck of cards
>> From: rvince99 at gmail.com
>> To: python-list at python.org
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>
> list(range(13 * 4 * decks)) == range(13 * 4 * decks)
>
> ;)
Not in Python3.x
>>> decks = 6
>>> list(range(13 * 4 * decks)) == range(13 * 4 * decks)
False
AdiaĆ
Marc
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