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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2018-06-27 01:08:31 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-06-27 01:08:31 -0700
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treed8fc61e6eabb4d83d9e5dbe9b7f34192b7760b79 /Lib/random.py
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downloadcpython-git-ddf7171911e117aa7ad4b0f9ded4f0c3a4ca0fec.tar.gz
bpo-24567: Random subnormal.diff (#7954)
Handle subnormal weights for choices()
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 1e0dcc87ed..1006908491 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -383,7 +383,9 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
raise ValueError('The number of weights does not match the population')
bisect = _bisect.bisect
total = cum_weights[-1]
- return [population[bisect(cum_weights, random() * total)] for i in range(k)]
+ hi = len(cum_weights) - 1
+ return [population[bisect(cum_weights, random() * total, 0, hi)]
+ for i in range(k)]
## -------------------- real-valued distributions -------------------