[New-bugs-announce] [issue18414] random.choices(seq, k)

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes:

The random module has no method to obvious way to select k elements from a sequence without enforcing unique values in the result set. It's a rather useful feature for salts, randomly generated passwords and other applications. See #18405

The patch implements random.choices(seq, k) -> list

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components: Library (Lib)
files: random_choices.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 192747
nosy: christian.heimes, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: random.choices(seq, k)
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30877/random_choices.patch

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