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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2020-04-19 07:36:42 (GMT)
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bpo-40325: Deprecate set object support in random.sample() (GH-19591)
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@@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ Functions for sequences
If the sample size is larger than the population size, a :exc:`ValueError`
is raised.
+ .. deprecated:: 3.9
+ In the future, the *population* must be a sequence. Instances of
+ :class:`set` are no longer supported. The set must first be converted
+ to a :class:`list` or :class:`tuple`, preferably in a deterministic
+ order so that the sample is reproducible.
+
+
Real-valued distributions
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