On Aug 27, 4:42 pm, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of items, and need to choose several elements from it, > "almost random". The catch is that the elements from the beginning > should have more chance of being selected than those at the end (how > much more? I don't care how the "envelope" of probability looks like at > this point - can be linear). I see that there are several functions in > Python standard libraries for various distribution, but is there an easy > pythonic way to make them do what I need?
Not sure how pythonic it is...but a simple(?) way to increase the chances for particular elements is to introduce copies. For example given [1,2,3], you can increase the chances of selecting '1' by changing the list to [1,1,2,3]. Cheers Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
