Just a problem I'm having and can't seem to figure out.
I have two tables: table1 and table2:
table1=[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] and
table2=[0 for i in range (21)] I want to run:
import random for d1 in range(21): table2[d1] = random.expovariate(gamma_val) But if value in table1 = 1, that position in table2 should run random.expovariate(x), and if not 1 run random.expovariate(y).
If I understand correctly would you not just:
import random for d1 in range(21): if table1[d1]: #1 evaluates to true in python table2[d1] = random.expovariate(x) else: table2[d1] = random.expovariate(y) 
table2 = [] for d1 in table1: value = x if d1 == 1 else y table2.append(random.expovariate(value)) Another option could be:
import random options = [y, x] for d1 in range(21): table2[d1] = random.expovariate(options[table1[d1]]) I'm using the values (0 or 1) as indexes of the options list.
If you want table2 to be the same size as table1, you can (and should) use something like this:
table2 = [random.expovariate(x if d1 else y) for d1 in table1] 