I don't know if this is pythonic or not, but try something like this:
from math import log
from random import randint
def: skewedrandom(n):
int(log(randrange(1,n), 2))
Play with your log to get the range you want
Cheers,
Cliff
Grant Edwards wrote:
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.
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