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On 24/10/2011 20:26, candide wrote:
> Where is documented the behaviour of the standard function randrange in
> the case of an empty list ? for instance randrange(42,33) ? May I rely
> on an ValueError type error?

It's the same back to at least Python 2.5, so you can probably rely on
that behaviour.

Interestingly, the documentation says:

"""This is equivalent to choice(range(start, stop, step)), but doesn’t 
actually build a range object."""

but for choice(seq) it says:

"""If seq is empty, raises IndexError."""

so it's not entirely equivalent.

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