Python homework

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Hi,

On 05/12/17 06:33, nick martinez2 via Python-list wrote:
> I have a question on my homework. My homework is to write a program in which
> the computer simulates the rolling of a die 50 times and then prints
> (i). the most frequent side of the die (ii). the average die value of all
> rolls. 

For this kind of problem I think the collections module [1] can be very 
useful. In this case in particular have a look at the Counter package ;)

Lorenzo.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/collections.html


I wrote the program so it says the most frequent number out of all the
> rolls for example (12,4,6,14,10,4) and will print out "14" instead of 4 like I
> need. This is what I have so far:
> import random
> 
> def rollDie(number):
>      rolls = [0] * 6
>      for i in range(0, number):
>          roll=int(random.randint(1,6))
>          rolls[roll - 1] += 1
>      return rolls
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>      result = rollDie(50)
>      print (result)
>      print(max(result))
>