List out of scope?

[Larz60+]

You need to supply working snippets - missing imports
You cannot assume we know what they are

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I think if you put print statements (as follows) in your code,
the error will stand out for you:

import random


def rollDsix():
    number = random.randint(1, 6)
    return number

def generateAbilityScores():
    i = 0
    j = 0
    scores = []
    pool = []

    while i < 6:
        while j < 4:
            roll = rollDsix()
            print('roll: {} scores: {}'.format(roll, scores))
            scores.append(roll)
            j += 1

        scores.sort()
        del scores[0]
        print('after delete scores: {}'.format(scores))
        total = scores[0] + scores[1] + scores[2]
        pool.append(total)
        i += 1

generateAbilityScores()

results:

Output:
roll: 2 scores: []
roll: 2 scores: [2]
roll: 6 scores: [2, 2]
roll: 1 scores: [2, 2, 6]
after delete scores: [2, 2, 6]
after delete scores: [2, 6]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:/python/m-p/p/play/nisc11.py", line 29, in <module>
    generateAbilityScores()
  File "M:/python/m-p/p/play/nisc11.py", line 25, in generateAbilityScores
    total = scores[0] + scores[1] + scores[2]
IndexError: list index out of range