Card – A basic playing card

A simple API for creating and using playing cards

We will be using numbers to represent playing card clubs and ranks.

These are the suits:

suits

['♠️', '♥️', '♦️', '♣️']

For instance, the suit at index 0:

suits[0]

'♠️'

These are the ranks:

ranks

[None, 'A', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', 'J', 'Q', 'K']

For instance, the rank at index 1:

(Note that there isn’t a rank at index 0, since we want the rank to match the indices where possible.)

ranks[1]

'A'

 Card (suit:int, rank:int)

A playing card, created by passing in rank and suit

	Type	Details
suit	int	An index into `suits`
rank	int	An index into `ranks`

Here is an example of creating and displaying a card:

c = Card(suit=3, rank=4)
c

4♣️

Comparison Operators

Equality, less than and greater than work on the rank and suit indices:

A test for equality:

test_eq(Card(suit=3, rank=4), Card(suit=3, rank=4))

And <:

assert Card(suit=1, rank=3) < Card(suit=2, rank=3)

And >:

assert Card(suit=3, rank=3) > Card(suit=2, rank=3)
assert not Card(suit=1, rank=3) > Card(suit=2, rank=3)