Weighted choice short and simple [duplicate]

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Since numpy version 1.7 you can use numpy.random.choice():

elements = ['one', 'two', 'three'] 
weights = [0.2, 0.3, 0.5]

from numpy.random import choice
print(choice(elements, p=weights))

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