I use lists to randomly pick an element over many iterations (to create artificial data sets). To change the probability of getting a certain element, I’m repeatedly adding those elements that should have a higher change of being picked, so instead of
fair_list = ["A", "B", "C"]
I would do
unfair_list = ["A", "B", "C", "C", "C"]
Is there a better way to do this inline? I tried
unfair_list = ["A", "B", 3 * "C"]
but this results in
["A", "B", "CCC"]
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Answer
You can do it in one line actually.
unfiar_list = ["A", "B", *["C"]*3]