on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Hope Rouselle]

Hope Rouselle <hrouselle at jevedi.com> writes:

> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>
>> Hope Rouselle <hrouselle at jevedi.com> writes:
>>>How would you write this?
>>
>> """Rolls two dice until both yield the same value.
>> Returns the number of times the two dice were rolled
>> and the final value yielded."""
>> roll_count = 0
>> while True:
>>     outcome = roll_two_dice()
>>     roll_count += 1
>>     if outcome[ 0 ]== outcome[ 1 ]: break
>> return roll_count, outcome[ 0 ]
>
> You totally convinced me.  Thanks.

Wait, I'm surprised ``outcome'' is still a valid name at the
return-statement.  Wasn't it defined inside the while?  Shouldn't its
scope be restricted to the while block?  I had no idea.  I should learn
some Python.