graded randomness

[Ben Bacarisse]

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python at gmail.com> writes:

> let us say that i have a box of 5 balls,
>
> green balls - 2 with probability 2/5
> red balls 2 - with probability 2/5
> blue balls 1 - with probability 1/5
>
> how to program the selection so that the random choices reflect the
> probabilities?

>>> import random
>>> random.choice(["green", "green", "red", "red", "blue"])

Not a method that scales particularly well, but there's almost no
context to evaluate solutions.

-- 
Ben.