Poker deck class /w generator function and list comprehensions

There are multiple aspects in the code I do not really like. [card for card in ...] looks really lame, also [x.pop() for i in range(y)]. I'm looking forward for any recommendation.

from random import shuffle 

class Deck(object):
    suits = range(4)
    ranks = range(13)

    @classmethod
    def generator(cls, suits, ranks):
        for suit in suits:
            for rank in ranks:
                yield({'suit': suit, 'rank': rank})

    def __init__(self):
        self.cards = [card for card in Deck.generator(Deck.suits, Deck.ranks)]
        shuffle(self.cards)

    def deal(self, amount):
        return [self.cards.pop() for i in range(amount)]

print Deck().deal(5)

[card for card in Deck.generator(…)] could be written as list(Deck.generator(…)).

Better yet, use itertools.product():

self.cards = [
    {'suit': suit, 'rank': rank}
    for suit, rank in itertools.product(xrange(4), xrange(13))
]

In Python 2, you should be using xrange() rather than range().

It's probably worth defining a Card class. At some point, you'll want to have suits that are named rather than numbered, and ranks A, J, Q, K rather than 0..12.

To deal multiple cards, you can slice the list instead of popping one card at a time:

def deal(self, n):
    hand = self.cards[-1 : -n-1 : -1]
    self.cards = self.cards[: -n]
    return hand

StackExchange Code Review Q#99254, answer score: 2