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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2002-11-12 17:41:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2002-11-12 17:41:57 (GMT) |
| commit | f24eb35d185c0623315cfbd9977d37c509860dcf (patch) | |
| tree | 336a055089a3bd51d89bf4fdc987fb90ce743e09 /Misc | |
| parent | 3a7ad5c5843467dc67ddf4c6622dd466f0f42c74 (diff) | |
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SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
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@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@ Library - Added operator.pow(a,b) which is equivalent to a**b. +- Added random.sample(population,k) for random sampling without replacement. + Returns a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population. + - random.randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer raises OverflowError. That is, it now accepts any combination of 'start' and 'stop' arguments so long as each is in the range of Python's |