Ted Whalen <tewha...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I think this should be reopened, as the behavior doesn't always raise an error, and, in fact, does something very unexpected: Python 3.7.2 (default, Jan 13 2019, 12:50:01) [Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from collections import Counter >>> from random import choices >>> Counter(choices("abcdefg", weights=(1,1,-1,1,1,0,1), k=10000)) Counter({'a': 2569, 'b': 2514, 'e': 2487, 'g': 2430}) It's really not clear to me why supplying a negative weight for "c" should have any effect on "d". ---------- nosy: +Ted Whalen _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31689> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com