Biased coin flipping?

Question

What is the simplest (does not have to be fastest) way to do a biased random choice between True and False in Python? By \"biased\", I mean where either True or False is mor

Answer 1

It's pretty easy and fast:

import random

def biased_flip(prob_true=0.5):
    return random.random() < prob_true

Of course if you just call biased_flip() you'll get True and False with 50% probability each, but e.g biased_flip(0.8) will give you about eight Trues for each False in the long run.