A dice-rolling library with a simple command-line interface
The Source
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Using Dicetastic
Synopsis
dicetastic [OPTION]
Description
Launches the command line interface. This will prompt you to enter a dice roll in the nDs format familliar to roleplayers everywhere.
n is the number of dice
D (or d) is the letter D
s is the number of sides of each die.
Eg. 3D6 will roll three six-sided dice and print the results as a list.
Options
-l --loop
Loop. Causes the program to loop through the request/roll until you enter a roll of 0d0
Using Dicelib
This is the dice library. Class Dice has the following methods:
set_sides sets the number of sides of each die to be rolled (default is 6)
get_sides returns the number of sides of each die to be rolled
set_count sets the number of dice to be rolled (default is 1)
get_count returns the number of dice to be rolled
roll_dice rolls the dice and returns the results as a list.
Latest Updates
- January 28 · Dicetastic
Looptastic
While playing around with Dicetastic earlier this week, I started to feel the need to optionally loop the program so that I didn’t have to repeatedly re-execute the command. This is now implemen (...) - January 13 · Dicetastic
Dicetastic: Now with convention conforming goodness
I mentioned yesterday that I had been playing around with Pylint and slowly cleaning up my existing code. The first result of this can now be seen online – I have just just committed the cleaned (...) - January 02 · Dicetastic
Dicetastic: Now with added documenation
Just a quick note to confirm that a Dicetastic project page has now been added to this site. I do, at some point, want to put a graphical front end on this but I tend to find GUI programming annoying (...) - January 01 · Dicetastic
Dicetastic: A dice-rolling library with a simple command-line interface
When I started trying to teach myself to program in Python, one of the first applications I wrote (apart from the online and printed exercises I could find) was a simple dice rolling application. For (...)
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