如何从列表中删除项目，并将其分配给变量？

Question

For some background if you're interested, I have a bit of experience in python but I haven't touched it in a couple of years - I mainly used basic but im looking to learn more of python.

I am trying to program a card based game, where items from a list (the deck of cards) are dealt out to players. I understand that this is usually bad practice, but I have created 5 "card slots" for each player which I am trying to move the card from the bottom of the list (deck) into this slot, this would make the rest of the game much simpler to program.

#import and shuffle cards
with open("deck.txt") as f:
        cards = f.readlines()

random.shuffle(cards)

#move bottom card to first slot (p1c1 stands for person 1 card 1)

p1c1 = cards(0)
cards.remove(a[0])

I am being given this error line

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/harry/OneDrive/Documents/python/21.py", line 41, in <module>
    p1c1 = int(cards(0))
TypeError: 'list' object is not callable

Answer 1

easy way - does assignment and removes item all at once.

p1c1 = cards.pop(0)

& the comments are right, to index a list you need to use square brackets.

Answer 2

The pop function (see here ) takes an index, and removes it while returning that item.

p1c1 = cards.pop(0)

Also note that to access a certain item in a list you use square brackets - so here's your now-working approach:

p1c1 = cards[0]
cards.remove(a[0])