[issue18414] random.choices(seq, k)

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

I concur with Antoine.  A list comprehension is the standard, obvious idiom for making a list from repeated function calls.  

Putting sampling without replacement in its own method makes the operation more opaque than a plain list comprehension (which doesn't need documentation to be clear about how many calls are made, what the output type is, its relationship to random.choice, whether k can be larger than the population, etc).

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