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21 September, 2024

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Python program to generate a deck of cards

Project Description

One of Practity’s classic mini python projects for practice is the deck of cards generator. Your task is to write  a command line program that generates a standard 52-card French-suited deck. Moreover, the program must include a function to suffle so whenever you run it, the program will return 4 random cards.

The standard French deck includes the following cards:

1. Four suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (♦), hearts (♥) and spades (♠)
2. Three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack
3. Each suit must also include ten numeral cards from one (Ace) to ten

Expected Output

# Print four random cards
print_random_cards(deck, 4)
9 of ♠ 2 of ♠ King of ♥ 6 of ♣

Steps

1. Define the "suits" list and "ranks" list to represent the four suits and thirteen ranks of a standard deck.
2. Create the "create_deck()" function that creates an empty "deck" list.
3. Use nested loops to iterate over each suit and rank, and create a card string in the format of “{rank} of {suit}”. Append each card to the "deck" list.
4. Return the "deck" list from the "create_deck()" function.
5. Create the "shuffle_deck()" function that takes the "deck" list as an argument and shuffles it using the "random.shuffle()" function.
6. Create the "print_random_cards()" function that takes the "deck" list and the desired number of cards as arguments.
7. Use the "random.sample()" function to select num_cards number of random cards from the deck.
8. Iterate over the "random_cards" list and print each card.
9. Finally, create the "deck" list by calling the "create_deck()" function, shuffle it using the "shuffle_deck()" function, and print four random cards by calling the function with "deck" and “4" as arguments.

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