Removing matching items from a list?

[kevin4fong at gmail.com]

On Saturday, August 3, 2013 5:25:16 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:06:05 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
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> > In article <51fd8635$0$30000$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
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> >  Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> >> 2) Then go through those initial letters, and pick out the ones equal
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> >> to 4 (or should that be "four or more"?).
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> > Assuming my earlier hunch is correct about these being cards in a deck,
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> > and the a's being aces, I would hope it's not "four or more".  See my
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> > earlier comment about saloons and gunshot wounds.
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> There are card games that involve more than four suits, or more than one 
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> pack. In principle, if you draw ten cards from an unknown number of 
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> packs, you could draw ten Aces, or even ten Aces of the same suit. Think 
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> of playing blackjack with ten packs shuffled together.
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> Cripple Mr Onion, for example, uses hands of ten cards drawn from eight 
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> suits:
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> http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Cripple_Mr_Onion
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> (yes, it's a real game, based on a fictional game)
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> The Indian Ganjifa deck uses ten "houses" (decks) of 12 cards each.
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> Pinochle uses the standard four Western suits, but uses two copies of 
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> each card 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, for 48 cards in total. Sometimes people 
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> combine two pinochle decks for larger games, so with a double deck all 
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> ten cards could be Aces.
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> In the 1930s, there was a fad for playing Bridge with a fifth suit, 
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> coloured green, called Royals, Leaves, Eagles or Rooks depending on the 
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> manufacturer.
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> There are five- and six-suit versions of poker, with at least two still 
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> commercially available: the five-suit Stardeck pack (which adds Stars), 
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> and the six-suit Empire deck (which adds red Crowns and black Anchors).
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> There is an eight-suit Euchre pack that adds red Moons, black Stars, red 
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> four-leaf Clovers and black Tears to the standard deck.
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> Steven


Thank you for the advice. It was really helpful with the descriptions and steps.

Would you also happen to know how I could set up a list that keeps track of the removed sets?

Let's say there's 4 a's taken out. The list would show:

['a']

But if there was also 4 j's in addition to the 4 a's, it would go:

['a', 'j']

and so forth.