On Saturday, August 3, 2013 5:25:16 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:06:05 -0400, Roy Smith 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. > > > > There are card games that involve more than four suits, or more than one > > pack. In principle, if you draw ten cards from an unknown number of > > packs, you could draw ten Aces, or even ten Aces of the same suit. Think > > of playing blackjack with ten packs shuffled together. > > > > Cripple Mr Onion, for example, uses hands of ten cards drawn from eight > > suits: > > > > http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Cripple_Mr_Onion > > > > (yes, it's a real game, based on a fictional game) > > > > > > The Indian Ganjifa deck uses ten "houses" (decks) of 12 cards each. > > > > Pinochle uses the standard four Western suits, but uses two copies of > > each card 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, for 48 cards in total. Sometimes people > > combine two pinochle decks for larger games, so with a double deck all > > ten cards could be Aces. > > > > In the 1930s, there was a fad for playing Bridge with a fifth suit, > > coloured green, called Royals, Leaves, Eagles or Rooks depending on the > > manufacturer. > > > > There are five- and six-suit versions of poker, with at least two still > > commercially available: the five-suit Stardeck pack (which adds Stars), > > and the six-suit Empire deck (which adds red Crowns and black Anchors). > > > > There is an eight-suit Euchre pack that adds red Moons, black Stars, red > > four-leaf Clovers and black Tears to the standard deck. > > > > > > > > -- > > Steven
Thank you for the advice. It was really helpful with the descriptions and steps. Would you also happen to know how I could set up a list that keeps track of the removed sets? Let's say there's 4 a's taken out. The list would show: ['a'] But if there was also 4 j's in addition to the 4 a's, it would go: ['a', 'j'] and so forth. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list