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authorWolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>2018-04-05 15:19:44 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2018-04-05 15:19:44 (GMT)
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bpo-33203: Ensure random.choice always raises IndexError on empty sequence (GH-6338)
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+``random.Random.choice()`` now raises ``IndexError`` for empty sequences
+consistently even when called from subclasses without a ``getrandbits()``
+implementation.