[issue34227] Weighted random.sample() (weighted sampling without replacement)

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thank for the suggestion and patch, but I will decline. To me, the reseviour style algorithm doesn't fit in well (with the slow sorting step and the frequent calls to the random in the key function). For large population sizes (which sample() was

[issue34227] Weighted random.sample() (weighted sampling without replacement)

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[issue34227] Weighted random.sample() (weighted sampling without replacement)

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[issue34227] Weighted random.sample() (weighted sampling without replacement)

New submission from Piotr Jurkiewicz : Function random.choices(), which appeared in Python 3.6, allows to perform weighted random sampling with replacement. Function random.sample() performs random sampling without replacement, but cannot do it weighted. I propose to enhance random.sample()

[issue34227] Weighted random.sample() (weighted sampling without replacement)

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