choices = dict() choices["apple"] = 10 choices["pear"] = 20 choices["banana"] = 15 choices["orange"] = 25 choices["kiwi"] = 30
I want to pick sets of fruit, three in a set, where the chance of selecting a given fruit is proportional to its weight. In the example above, pears should appear twice as often as apples and kiwis should appear twice as often as bananas. I see this solution (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3679694/a-weighted-version-of-random-choice) but it is for single choices at a time. random.sample() does not provide a "weight" argument. I can picture how to write this with many, many lines of code but I have a feeling there is an elegant solution. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
