[issue40388] random.choice integer overflow v3.5.2

[Nicholas Prowse]

Nicholas Prowse <nick5990 at yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

Code as requested is similar to the below:

N = <40 digit int>
sequence=range(1,N)
a = random.choice(sequence)

Since you class the error previously mentioned as an exception, what function should be used instead for choosing a random integer between 1 and including N-1?

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