playdice 2025.7.13.0

Simplistically play dice

Simplistically play dice with the command-line arguments

Example usage

$ dice -h
usage: dice [-h] [-e EYES] [items ...]

Play dice with the command-line arguments. When no arguments are given, simulate casting a die.

positional arguments:
  items            the items to pseudo-randomly select from (default: None)

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -e, --eyes EYES  the number of eyes of the die (default: 6)
$ dice
3
$ dice a b c
b

In a folder full of items, one may be pseudo-randomly selected by saying

$ dice *
playdice-2025.7.5.0-py3-none-any.whl

Installation

The project is on PyPI, so simply run

python -m pip install playdice

or

python -m pip install playdice[colour]

for colour support on the terminal.