Coin flips / die rolls, with results shared in the topic/DM

[joshtriplett]

I'd love to have a command to roll a die or flip a coin, accepting dice expressions. The server would roll the die, and fill in the result like this:

User types: /roll 2d20
Message says: * User rolled 2d20: 12, 17 (total 29)

(The value of the die roll should be preserved in message history, and not re-rolled if the message is edited. If the message or the roll is deleted, or the roll expression is edited, ideally the "(edited)" tag on the message would also say something like "roll changed".)

[timabbott]

This seems like a pretty reasonable slash command.

I wonder if there's a good Python library for doing the parsing; that seems like most of the complexity here.

[Emil2022]

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[Emil2022]

Hello! I'm trying to add these features to the Zcommand related files. Are there any particular files that I should be looking into outside of zcommand.py and zcommand,js?

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@zulipbot I am still actively working on the issue

[Emil2022]

Just making sure I understand this correctly. Do I need to make a pull request by tomorrow, or else I get removed from the issue?

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[Emil2022]

I have two doubts. Firstly, I'm not sure how I should go about recognizing content that comes after the command "/roll". Like in the example "/roll 2d20" would roll two dice that have values between 1 and 20. I'm only able to recognize "/roll" and not the entire "/roll 2d20 command.

Secondly, how should the imports be ordered? I added a import random line, and now it won't pass the built in checks due to this line being out of order.

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[fqian2002]

yes