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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Christian.Kleineidam, NeilGirdhar, aisaac, dkorchem, madison.may, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, westley.martinez, xksteven
Date 2016-04-07.07:21:09
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> One to make it return a single number if amount == 1 and the other to check that the amount > 1.

I think that's a dangerous API. Any code making a call to "weighted_choice(..., amount=n)" for variable n now has to be prepared to deal with two possible result types. It would be easy to introduce buggy code that fails in the corner case n = 1.
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