Scott David Daniels wrote: > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was surprised by the speed and number of posts. Thanks for the solutions provided! >>> def roll(times=1, sides=6): ... return random.randint(times, times*sides) Although this would probably be quicker than the other approaches, I'm not using the dice to generate numbers per say, I actually want to emulate the rolling of dice, bell-curve (normal distribution) as well as the range. Thanks again, I already like what (very) little I can do in Python and it seems to have a great community too. Cheers, Dave. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
