David Barr wrote:
> I am brand new to Python (this is my second day), and the only
> experience I have with programming was with VBA. Anyway, I'm posting
> this to see if anyone would be kind enough to help me with this (I
> suspect, very easy to solve) query.
>
> The following code is in a file which I am running through the
> interpreter with the execfile command, yet it yeilds no results. I
> appreciate I am obviously doing something really stupid here, but I
> can't find it. Any help appreciated.
>
>
> def d6(i):
> roll = 0
> count = 0
> while count <= i:
> roll = roll + random.randint(1,6)
> count += 1
>
> return roll
>
> print d6(3)
A) your direct answer: by using <=, you are rolling 4 dice, not 3.
B) Much more pythonic:
import random
def d6(count):
result = 0
for die in range(count):
result += random.randint(1, 6)
return result
-Scott David Daniels
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