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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/random.rst
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-------

These recipes show how to efficiently make random selections
from the combinatoric iterators in the :mod:`itertools` module:
from the combinatoric iterators in the :mod:`itertools` module
or the :pypi:`more-itertools` project:

.. testcode::
import random
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indices = sorted(random.choices(range(n), k=r))
return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)

def random_derangement(iterable):
"Choose a permutation where no element is in its original position."
seq = tuple(iterable)
if len(seq) < 2:
raise ValueError('derangments require at least two values')
perm = list(seq)
while True:
random.shuffle(perm)
if all(p != q for p, q in zip(seq, perm)):
return tuple(perm)

The default :func:`.random` returns multiples of 2⁻⁵³ in the range
*0.0 ≤ x < 1.0*. All such numbers are evenly spaced and are exactly
representable as Python floats. However, many other representable
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