Hi all, I need to randomly sample from a list where all choices have weights attached to them. The probability of them being choosen is dependent on the weights. If say Sample list of choices are [A,B,C,D,E] and weights of the same are [0.895,0.567,0.765,0.890,0.60] when I draw (say 2) samples then I want the likeliness of them being chosen be in the order : D>A>C>E>B
In short I mean if prob of a H is .9 and probability of T be 0.1 then if I draw 10 samples, 9 should be H and 1 should be T. I coudn't find a function in the module random that does so. Please can someone guide me how the above could be implemented [either through some function which exists and I don't know or pointers to some code snippets which does so]? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
