On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <51fd8635$0$30000$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> 2) Then go through those initial letters, and pick out the ones equal to >> 4 (or should that be "four or more"?). > > Assuming my earlier hunch is correct about these being cards in a deck, > and the a's being aces, I would hope it's not "four or more". See my > earlier comment about saloons and gunshot wounds.
Unless he's working with multiple decks. There are plenty of games played with a double deck. But we did get a peek at his creation code, which appears to make but a single deck's worth of cards. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list