I wrote a program to roll some dice together. The way it works is I pass in the dice I want to roll to the main function, [4, 6] aka 4 sided dice and 6 sided dice.
The program then generates 2 lists that contain all the possible outcomes for the dice individually
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and [1, 2, 3, 4]
Then, I make a list of all possible outcomes and just add every combination of data between the two lists. Here's my code
#list of outcomes from current dice rolling - to contain sublists within it for each dice
rawDiceOutcomes = []
#list of total outcomes to find probabilities in
finalOutcomes = []
#generate n lists of outcomes
for i in range(len(dice)):
rawDiceOutcomes.append([i for i in range(1, dice[i]+1)]) #[1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] etc
#TODO : Figure out some way to do this for an n-dimensional list
for x in rawDiceOutcomes[0]:
for y in rawDiceOutcomes[1]:
tempOutcome = x + y
finalOutcomes.append(tempOutcome)
As the commentary shows, I know how to do this if only rolling 2 dice, but eventually, I want to be able to pass in 3, 4, 100 dice etc. How would I go about looping through all the lists so that I can pass in any number of dice and it works?
For a general approach with any dice:
from itertools import product
dice = [4, 6]
individual_outcomes = [range(1, d+1) for d in dice]
combined_outcomes = [*map(sum, product(*individual_outcomes))]