blackjack.packages package

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class Card(input_card)

Class of a single card in a traditional deck of 52 cards. Cards are 2 - 10 and have a value matching their integer name. or the are a ‘face’ card (Jack, Queen, King) and valued at 10. Ace cards are valued at 1 or 11 depending on the state of the rest of the

hand.

Parameters:input_card (tuple) –

A 3-value tuple composed of: card_name : string

The name of the card from the traditional set of playing cards.

suit : string

One of (‘H’, ‘D’, ‘C’, ‘S’) representing the four possible suits.

orig_loc : int

The card’s original location in the shoe at “construction” time

card_name

string

The “rank” of given card instance

suit

string

The “suit”

orig_loc

int

The integer representing the location in the original shoe, before any shuffling

value

int

The integer value (from 1 - 11) of a card’s worth in the game of Blackjack.

assign_value()

flip_ace()

For imposing a new vaule if the status of the game requires it.

class Dealer(shoe)

Bases: blackjack.packages.player.Player

A subclass of the class Player, with a method to determine if he hits or not in a given situation.

hits()

class Player(shoe)

The hand of cards for a given player

shoe : Instance of Shoe Class

The current shoe initialized in Blackjack.sitting()

hand_of_cards

list

A list of cards in the current hand.

max_target_score

int

A constant set to 21 per the rules of blackjack

status

dict

A dictionary of bools, representing:

“bj” : Score a Blackjack? “bust” : Bust(go over 21) yet? “interested” : Interested in receiving another card when offereds

get_card()

Gets a new card from the shoe

pretty_output()

Creates a string of the current cards for output

score()

Calculates the current score of the hand

update_status()

Updates a players status based on score of current hand_of_cards

Returns:As evidence of executing Return type:True

class User(shoe)

Bases: blackjack.packages.player.Player

A subclass of the class Player, with a method to determine if he hits or not in a given situation.

hits()

class Shoe(num_decks=1)

A shoe of cards made out of a number of traditional decks. User will be asked for the number of decks to put in the shoe.

Parameters:num_decks (int) – The number of decks supplied by the user. Defaults to 1 deck.

num_decks

int

Number of 52 card decks to use

cards

list

List of instances of card object returned by the constructor method

__len__()

Overloading Builtin: Assigns the value of len(list of cards) to the length of the object

cards_left()

Not currently accessed by any part of the script, other than the testing suite.

Returns:The length of list that is self.cards Return type:int

constructor()

Builds a shoe of playing card decks. Each card in a given deck

will be unique.

cards

list

A list of the cards currently available to the players

suits

list

A list of strings reprsenting the 4 suits possible in a deck

Returns:A list of cards that is a (num_decks) multiple of standard 52 card decks. Return type:list

hand_out_card()

Takes the top card, aka the last card in the list of cards and removes it from the list and returns it.

Returns:Based on success of execution. Return type:bool

merge_sort(lst)

Not currently accessed by any part of the script, other than the testing suite.

Parameters:lst (list) – A list of “orderable” objects. Returns:A new list of the same elements - sorted. Return type:list

shuffle_shoe()

Shuffles the order of the cards in the list that constitues the shoe.

Returns:For evidence of exectution Return type:True

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