Python homework

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/13/2017 8:28 AM, boffi at choices.random.py wrote:
> nick.martinez2 at aol.com (nick martinez2) writes:
> 
>> def rollDie(number):
>>      rolls = [0] * 6
>>      for i in range(0, number):
>>          roll=int(random.randint(1,6))

One could just as well use randint(0, 5) and skip the -1 below.

>>          rolls[roll - 1] += 1
>>      return rolls

This returns a list with a count of how many times each of 1 to 6 is 
chosen in *number* rolls.

> def rollDie(number):
>      from random import choices
>      return choices((1,2,3,4,5,6), k=number)

This returns a list with all *number* rolls.  Assuming the the first 
function is the one wanted, one could feed choices into a counter.  (The 
import should be outside of the function.)

def rollDie(number):
     rolls = [0] * 6
     for i in random.choices((0,1,2,3,4,5), k=number):
         rolls[i] += 1
     return rolls

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy