How can I get a weighted random pick from Python's Counter class?

Question

I have a program where I\'m keeping track of the success of various things using collections.Counter — each success of a thing increments the corr

Answer 1

Another variant with iteration:

import collections
from collections import Counter
import random


class CounterElementsRandomAccess(collections.Sequence):
    def __init__(self, counter):
        self._counter = counter

    def __len__(self):
        return sum(self._counter.values())

    def __getitem__(self, item):
        for i, el in enumerate(self._counter.elements()):
            if i == item:
                return el

scoreboard = Counter('AAAASDFQWERQWEQWREAAAAABBBBCCDDVBSDF')
score_elements = CounterElementsRandomAccess(scoreboard)
for i in range(10):
    print random.choice(score_elements)