Cutting a deck of cards

[Carlos Nepomuceno]

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> 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
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> Suppose I have a deck of cards, and I shuffle them
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> import random
> cards = []
> decks = 6
> cards = list(range(13 * 4 * decks))
> random.shuffle(cards)
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> 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.
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> 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
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list(range(13 * 4 * decks)) == range(13 * 4 * decks)

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