How to build a Dice Roller in Python

Hello everyone, today we are going to create a Dice Roller in Python.

How does it work?

In the real world, we use dice to get a random number ranging from 1- 6 so we can proceed with the game accordingly. Our program is going to work similarly. Every time we will run our program, it will return us a random number between 1 & 6. Now let's jump to coding and make this project.

Let's Code

The first thing we are gonna do is import the required modules.

For this project, we need only one module which is random module which helps us to generate random values.

import random

We have successfully imported random module.

Now we may need to use the Dice Roller multiple times hence it will be a good idea to use an while loop in order to keep our code running for as long as user wishes.

while True:
    pass

Here we go! Here is the basic syntax of the while loop. We will substitute that pass keyword with our remaining code.

Now let's give our code the ability to generate a random number between 1 to 6.

Here we will make use of one of the functions of our random module.

print(f"The value is ", random.randint(1,6))

random.randint(START_VALUE, END_VALUE) is the function we are going to use.

As previously mentioned, this function will take an START_VALUE & an END_VALUE which will be 1 & 6 in our case, since we need a value between 1 & 6.

We are also using an print() function along with f-string to directly print the output on the console, rather than storing it in a variable.

We are almost done!

Now let's add one line to ask the user if he/she wishes to roll the dice again or would like the end the program instead. This is pretty simple.

repeat = input("Roll Dice again? 'y' for yes & 'n' for no: ")
if repeat == 'n':
    break

Here we are simply using input() function to ask the user and the user can reply in either yes or no. And we are using an if statement so that if the user replies no, then the loop will terminate otherwise the loop will continue to run forever.

Finally here's how our while loop will look like:

while True:
    print("Rolling Dice...")
    print(f"The value is ", random.randint(1,6))
    repeat = input("Roll Dice again? 'y' for yes & 'n' for no: ")
    if repeat == 'n':
        break

Here we have also added an optional print() function to indicate the rolling of the dice.

You did it! 🤩

Source Code

You can find the complete source code of this project here -

mindninjaX/Python-Projects-for-Beginners

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