Ram Rachum wrote:.
> I notice that the random.sample function doesn't have a default behavior
> set when you don't specify k. This is fortunate, because we could make
> that behavior just automatically take the length of the first argument. So
> we could do this:
> shuffled_numbers = random.sample(range(10, 10 ** 5))
> What do you think?

This is bad API design.  The most likely user mistake is to omit the *k* argument.  We want that to be an error.  It is common to sample from large populations, we don't want the default to do anything terrible — for example, you're in a Jupyter notebook and type "sample(range(10_000_000))" and forget to enter the sample size.

Also, having *k* default to the population size would be surprisingly inconsistent given that choices() has a default k=1.  API design principle: don't have unexpectedly different defaults in related functions.