[issue37708] Harmonize random.choice(s) behavior with random.sample on iterators

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[issue37708] Harmonize random.choice(s) behavior with random.sample on iterators

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The sample() function accepts d.keys() because a keys view is registered as being an instance of collections.abc.Set. We have to do that because sample() is specifically documented as accepting sets. If we had it do over again, that functionality would

[issue37708] Harmonize random.choice(s) behavior with random.sample on iterators

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[issue37708] Harmonize random.choice(s) behavior with random.sample on iterators

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Seems similar to https://bugs.python.org/issue37682 -- nosy: +rhettinger, xtreak ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue37708] Harmonize random.choice(s) behavior with random.sample on iterators

New submission from Lex Flagel : It would be nice to make random.sample and random.choice both have the same behavior with iterators. Currently random.sample accepts them happily, and whereas random.choice does not. E.g. > import random > d = {'a':1, 'b':2} > random.sample(d.keys(),1) Out: [