[Tutor] Cards Program

[Rob Andrews]

How about adding a little extra flow control during the card dealing so that
a list of players is iterated through and dealt to w/o having to restart the
deal with a fresh deck?

One idea is to try coding this program using classes, having a *dealer* and
several *player* objects.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy M. Brauch" <tbrauch@mindless.com>
To: "Python Tutor" <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Cards Program


> I am slowly working on a program that simulates dealing cards.  While
> right now I have no real purpose for this program, it is just something
> I thought I'd like to try.  However, I have come to a stumbling block.
> As it is right now, I can get the program to deal as many cards as I
> want, but I cannot think of a way to get the cards into seperate hands,
> other than just having the program deal out the cards and then manually
> split these cards up into hands myself.  That is not what I am looking
> for.  Here is my code so far:
>
> ######################################################################
>
> import random
>
> cards = input('How many cards do you want for each hand? ')
> dealt=[]
> c=0
> values=['2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','Jack','Queen','King','Ace']
> suits=['Hearts','Spades','Diamonds','Clubs']
>
> def card():
>     value=random.randint(0,12)
>     suit=random.randint(0,3)
>     return [suit,value]
>
> while (c<cards):
>     new_card=card()
>     if new_card not in dealt:
>         dealt.append(new_card)
>         c=c+1
>     else: pass
>
> dealt.sort()
> for item in dealt:
>     print values[item[1]]+' of '+suits[item[0]]
>
> raw_input('Press enter to end. ')
>
> ######################################################################
>
> This code will work for one hand, but if I try to just run it again for
> anotehr hand, there will be repeated cards.  Ideally I'd like to be able
> to have the program ask me how many hands I want dealt and how many
> cards in each hand.  But I just cannot seem to make anything I try
> work.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>  - Tim
>
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