Programming Praxis

[ Thanks to all who wrote with good wishes after my post last Friday. I am fully recovered and back at work. ]

Newspapers and textbooks often print bridge hands in the format shown below, then discuss the proper playing of the hand:

                    NORTH
                    S: A Q J 10 8
                    H: 5 4 2
                    D: 9
                    C: 10 7 6 2
WEST                                    EAST
S: 7                                    S: 6
H: Q J 7 6 3                            H: K 10 8
D: J 10 6 4 3                           D: A K Q 5
C: A 8                                  C: K 9 5 4 3
                    SOUTH
                    S: K 9 5 4 3 2
                    H: A 9
                    D: 8 7 2
                    C: Q J

Your task is to write a program to generate random bridge hands and print them in the format shown above. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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