Probability distribution in Python

Question

I have a bunch of keys that each have an unlikeliness variable. I want to randomly choose one of these keys, yet I want it to be more unlikely for unlikely (key, values) to

Answer 1

About 3 years later...

If you use numpy, perhaps the simplest option is to use np.random.choice, which takes a list of possible values, and an optional sequence of probabilities associated with each value:

import numpy as np

values = ('A', 'B', 'C', 'D')
weights = (0.5, 0.1, 0.2, 0.2)

print ''.join(np.random.choice(values, size=60, replace=True, p=weights))
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