random numbers according to user defined distribution ??

[Jeremy Sanders]

Alex wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible in python to produce random numbers
> according to a user defined distribution?
> Unfortunately the random module does not contain the distribution I
> need :-(

Have you looked at the numpy random number module? It seems to have quite a
lot of distributions. See help(numpy.random).

Jeremy

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