Python Program to Shuffle Deck of Cards

In this program, you’ll learn how to Shuffle Deck of Cards in Python.

To properly understand this example to shuffle a deck of cards in Python, you should have the knowledge of following Python programming topics:

Python for Loop
Python Operators
Python I/O and Import

Program to shuffle deck of cards

# import modules
import itertools, random

# make a deck of cards
deck = list(itertools.product(range(1,14),['Spade','Heart','Diamond','Club']))

# shuffle the cards
random.shuffle(deck)

# draw five cards
print("You got:")
for i in range(5):
   print(deck[i][0], "of", deck[i][1])

Output:

You got:
5 of Heart
1 of Heart
8 of Spade
12 of Spade
4 of Spade

shuffle deck of cards — Python Program to shuffle a deck of cards

Note: To get different shuffle cards, run this Program again.

In the above program, we used product() function in itertools module to create a deck of cards. This function performs the Cartesian product of the two sequences.

The two sequences are, numbers from 1 to 13 as we have 13 cards for each phase and the four suits. So, total we have 13 * 4 = 52 items in the deck of cards with each card as a tuple.

For e.g. deck[0] = (1, 'Spade').

Our deck is ordered, so we shuffle it using the function shuffle() in random module.

now after the above steps, we draw the 1st five cards and display it to the user.

Here we have used the standard modules itertools and random that comes with Python.

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