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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2020-05-07.11:34:58
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+1 for the functionality.

How about "counts" instead of "weights"?

I found the name "weights" misleading - my first thought was that this would be doing a weighted sampling without replacement (like NumPy's `random.choice(..., replace=False, p=weights)`).

Of course, now I've read the docs, I know better.
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