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authorTomáš Hrnčiar <thrnciar@redhat.com>2022-03-24 13:22:58 (GMT)
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bpo-40465: Document random module changes in 3.11 What's new (#31818)
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@@ -705,6 +705,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
deprecated since Python 3.6.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`47066`.)
+* The *population* parameter of :func:`random.sample` must be a sequence.
+ Automatic conversion of sets to lists is no longer supported. If the sample size
+ is larger than the population size, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised.
+ (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`40465`.)
+
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