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Author	roysmith
Recipients	docs@python, roysmith
Date	2012-07-06.17:50:44
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Message-id	<1341597045.34.0.429934948335.issue15265@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The docs don't say what happens if you call random.sample() with a population smaller than k. Experimentally, it raises ValueError, but this should be documented. I would have guessed it would return IndexError, by analogy to random.choice().

The docs don't say what happens if you call random.sample() with a population smaller than k.  Experimentally, it raises ValueError, but this should be documented.

I would have guessed it would return IndexError, by analogy to random.choice().

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