The Python Data Model

1. A Pythonic Card Deck

It demonstrates the power of implementing just two special methods, __getitem__ and __len__.

A deck as a sequence of playing cards.

import collections

Card = collections.namedtuple('Card', ['rank', 'suit'])

class FrenchDeck:
    ranks = [str(n) for n in range(2, 11)] + list('JQKA')
    suits = 'spades diamonds clubs hearts'.split()

    def __init__(self):
        self._cards = [Card(rank, suit) for suit in self.suits 
                                        for rank in self.ranks]
    
    def __len__(self):
        return len(self._cards)
    
    def __getitem__(self, position):
        return self._cards[position]

 

The use of collections.namedtuple to construct a simple class to represent in