Closed as not planned
Description
Feature or enhancement
The random.sample function takes a k argument, I want to make it default to the length of the sequence.
Pitch
It would make a copy-shuffle (as opposed to the in-place shuffle done by random.shuffle) just as simple as one function call. It would also allow easier of random.sample
in a functional programming fashion, by avoiding the need to create a variable containing the population variable prior to calling the function.
In other words, random.sample
would be to random.shuffle
what sorted
is to str.sort
.
Previous discussion
https://discuss.python.org/t/making-random-samples-k-argument-optional/