How to randomly shuffle a deck of cards among players?

Question

I am having trouble using one function in another to deal cards. Here is what I have so far.

import random as rand 

def create(): 
     ranks = [\'2\', \'3\',          


        

Answer 1

There are certainly other ways to do it, but you could complete your function as so, in order to return a dictionary of your players and their hands:

def cards_dealt(num_cards, num_players, deck):
    rand.shuffle(deck)
    return {player:[deck.pop() for _ in range(num_cards)] for player in range(num_players)}

Then, create your deck (that is where your "deck is not defined" problem comes in) and call your function:

my_deck = create()

print(cards_dealt(5, 3, my_deck))

Which returns:

{0: [['10S'], ['8S'], ['7D'], ['6S'], ['4C']], 
 1: [['JD'], ['AC'], ['QD'], ['2D'], ['JS']], 
 2: [['6D'], ['4H'], ['AS'], ['4S'], ['9S']]}

The equivalent cards_dealt function, but with loops instead of the dict and list comprehensions is:

def cards_dealt (num_cards, num_players, deck): 
     rand.shuffle(deck)
     player_hands = {i:[] for i in range(num_players)}
     for player in range(num_players):
         for num in range(num_cards):
             player_hands[player].append(deck.pop())
     return player_hands