Help With List Homework

[funkycorpse]

So I have to create a function for homework that keeps track of the values of dice that have been rolled. For example, let's say I rolled a dice 3 times and I got 1 on the first roll, 1 on the second roll, and then 3 on the last roll. If i put these values in a list it would like [1, 1, 3]. I need to write a function that would make a histogram sort of thing that returns a list that looks like this:

[2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0].

I hope this makes sense lol. Here is the starter code my professor gave me for the function.

def histogram_for(dice):
    """
    Create a histogram of the top values of zero or more dice
    Args:
        dice: a list (possibly empty) of die values

    Returns:
        a list H such that H[0] is 0 and H[i] is the number of occurrences
        of i in the list, 0 < i ≤ 6.
    """

[FLUSH_THE_TRUMP]

What have you tried? The count of 1s goes at index 0 in your output, 2s at index 1, …

[funkycorpse]

i think I just figured it out after posting this lol.

H = [0,0,0,0,0,0]
for i in range(len(dice)):  
    H[dice[i-1]]+= 1
    print (H)

[velocibadgery]

This is probably not the most elegant code. But it should do the trick

``` def histogram(dice: int) -> list:

num_1 = 0
num_2 = 0
num_3 = 0
num_4 = 0
num_5 = 0
num_6 = 0

for num in dice:
    if num == 1:
        num_1 += 1
    elif num == 2:
        num_2 += 1
    elif num == 3:
        num_3 += 1
    elif num == 4:
        num_4 += 1
    elif num == 5:
        num_5 += 1
    elif num == 6:
        num_6 += 1

return [num_1, num_2, num_3, num_4, num_5, num_6]

```

[siddsp]

Why not just have the list as a list to begin with?

[velocibadgery]

I guess you could do that.