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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2012-07-08 23:01:53 (GMT)
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Issue 15265: document the exception raised for invalid sample sizes.
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@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ Functions for sequences:
argument. This is especially fast and space efficient for sampling from a large
population: ``sample(range(10000000), 60)``.
+ If the sample size is larger than the population size, a :exc:``ValueError``
+ is raised.
+
The following functions generate specific real-valued distributions. Function
parameters are named after the corresponding variables in the distribution's
equation, as used in common mathematical practice; most of these equations can