Question

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).

Answer 1

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)