Question

New to programming, for practice I’m attempting to program the I-Ching oracle.
I’m getting the output I want, but only by copying this code block into my program 6 times.

Is there a loop condition I can set to make this more concise?

I’ve read the docs and tuts on looping but haven’t seen how it could be applied in this context.

import random 

oracle = random.randint(6,9)

if oracle == 6:
   print "__ __~"
elif oracle == 7:
 print "_____"
elif oracle == 8:
 print "__ __"
elif oracle == 9:
 print "_____~"   (X6)

=>
this is the output I am getting:

_____
__ __
__ __~
_____
_____~
__ __

Answer 1

You could use a while loop like this:

import random 

counter = 0

while counter < 6:
    oracle = random.randint(6,9)

    if oracle == 6:
       print "__ __~"
    elif oracle == 7:
       print "_____"
    elif oracle == 8:
       print "__ __"
    elif oracle == 9:
       print "_____~"

    counter += 1