From bb2839b680b565f99e463921f3c28fb3c7368096 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 01:06:52 -0800
Subject: Issue #29055: Suppress upstream exception for random.choice()
---
Lib/random.py | 2 +-
Misc/NEWS | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 49b0f14..ad1c916 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
try:
i = self._randbelow(len(seq))
except ValueError:
- raise IndexError('Cannot choose from an empty sequence')
+ raise IndexError('Cannot choose from an empty sequence') from None
return seq[i]
def shuffle(self, x, random=None):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6947359..544c8e5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Library
- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
+- Issue #29055: Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice()
+ by suppressing the upstream exception.
+
- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
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