Is there a better way of doing this?

[mattia]

Il Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:43:22 -0800, Chris Rebert ha scritto:

> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:07 AM, mattia <gervaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Great, the for statement has not to deal with fap anymore, but with
>> another sequence, like this:
>>
>> def get_roulette_wheel(weight_value_pairs):
>>    roulette_wheel = []
>>    for weight, value in weight_value_pairs:
>>        roulette_wheel += [value]*weight
>>    return roulette_wheel
>>
>> def selection(fitness, population):
>>    ...
>>    rw = get_roulette_wheel(fap)
>>    for i in range(pop_len-2):
>>        selected_population += [choice(rw)]
>>    return selected_population
>>
>> I think that using [choice(rw)]*len(fap) will produce the same sequence
>> repeted len(fap) times...
> 
> Revision to this new code:
> 
> def get_roulette_wheel(weight_value_pairs):
>    return [[value]*weight for weight, value in weight_value_pairs]
> 
> def selection(fitness, population):
>    ...
>    rw = get_roulette_wheel(fap)
>    for i in range(len(fap)):
>        selected_population.append(choice(rw))
>    return selected_population
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

Great, append is equivalent to += right? or more efficient?