On 09.07.2012 01:02, raymond.hettinger wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/72174d8af3ba changeset: 78015:72174d8af3ba user: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> date: Sun Jul 08 16:01:53 2012 -0700 summary: Issue 15265: document the exception raised for invalid sample sizes.

files: Doc/library/random.rst | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ argument. This is especially fast and space efficient for sampling from a large population: ``sample(range(10000000), 60)``.

+ If the sample size is larger than the population size, a :exc:``ValueError``

Should be :exc:`ValueError` (one set of quotes only). Georg