Hi Paul, and welcome! On Sun, 13 May 2018 17:48:47 -0700, Paul wrote:
> Hi, > I just learned how to use random.choices(). [...] > Consequently, I specified 'cum_weights' with a sequence which wasn't in > ascending order. I got back k results but I determined that they > weren't correct (eg, certain population values were never returned). > > Since the non-ascending sequence, which I had supplied, could not > possibly be valid input, why isn't this checked (and an error returned)? > Returning incorrect results (which could be hard to spot as being > incorrect) is much more dangerous. Also, checking that the list is in > ascending order need only be done once, and seems like it would be > inexpensive. Sounds like a reasonable feature request to me. https://bugs.python.org/issue33494 -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
