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Shuffling a deck of cards

Often times we are interested in randomizing the order of a set of items. Consider a game of cards where you first shuffle the deck of cards or a game of scrabble where the letters are first mixed in a bag. As the final exercise of this section, you will learn another useful function - np.random.shuffle(). This function allows you to randomly shuffle a sequence in place. At the end of this exercise, you will know how to shuffle a deck of cards or any sequence of items.

Examine deck_of_cards in the shell.

This exercise is part of the course

Statistical Simulation in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Use the np.random.shuffle() function to shuffle deck_of_cards.
  • Select the top three cards from this list by slicing.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Shuffle the deck
____

# Print out the top three cards
card_choices_after_shuffle = ____
print(card_choices_after_shuffle)
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