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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Doc/library/random.rst
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Expand Up @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Functions for sequences
.. versionchanged:: 3.11

The *population* must be a sequence. Automatic conversion of sets
to lists is longer supported.
to lists is no longer supported.


.. _real-valued-distributions:
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
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Expand Up @@ -693,6 +693,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
deprecated since Python 3.6.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`47066`.)

* The *population* parameter of :func:`random.sample` must be a sequence.
Automatic conversion of sets to lists is no longer supported. If the sample size
is larger than the population size, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`40465`.)


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