On 2007-08-27, Jun-geun Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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?
> That's weird. random.randint(a,b) will be enough for most > cases. Test your system to see the distribution is uniform > with something like: Except he wants a non-uniform distribution. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm changing the at CHANNEL ... But all I get visi.com is commercials for "RONCO MIRACLE BAMBOO STEAMERS"! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list