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Author rhettinger
Recipients NeilGirdhar, aisaac, dkorchem, madison.may, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, westley.martinez
Date 2014-08-10.09:45:12
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I'm adverse to adding the generator magic and the level of complexity in this patch.  Please aim for the approach I outlined above (one function to build cumulative weights and another function to choose the value).

Since this isn't a new problem, please take a look at how other languages and packages have solved the problem.
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2014-08-10 09:45:12rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, tim.peters, mark.dickinson, pitrou, aisaac, westley.martinez, serhiy.storchaka, NeilGirdhar, madison.may, dkorchem
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