🔒 Bug with appending strings to a list

[hollow maple]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/CK3Q

[shy phoenix]

@hollow maple

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[hollow maple]

Basically if you try to use the spin() function with 5/6 unfired chambers left, it will be stuck in a forever while loop, and if you use the spin function with less than 5/6 unfired chambers left it will add one too many to make it have 7/6 if that makes sense

[austere bear]

you are checking the value of chamber_count, right? well, it gets defined before the loop, and you never update the value after appending a new shot. since you're always checking the old value the loop can' t terminate.

a = 1
while a < 2:
    ...
    # if you never change the value of a, it will loop forever.
    # a += 1

[hollow maple]

Yeah it should be checking..?

chamber_count = len(shots)
while chamber_count != 6:
    shots.append('dud')

[austere bear]

try to follow the logic of your code. what happens to the value of chamber_count after shots.append('dud')?

[hollow maple]

Im a dumbass tysm

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