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[Gilush]

It's my first time reading about the random.sample option. what is the "k" stands for?

random.sample
Basically it picks k unique random elements(sample) from a sequence.

>>> import random
>>> 
>>> random.sample(range(1, 10), 5)
[5, 3, 1, 7, 9]
>>> random.sample(range(1, 10), 5)
[8, 9, 6, 1, 4]
>>> random.sample(range(1, 10), 11)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python39\lib\random.py", line 363, in sample
    raise ValueError("Sample larger than population or is negative")
ValueError: Sample larger than population or is negative

If doing it like this there will not be unique elements.

>>> [random.randint(1, 10) for i in range(5)]
[5, 8, 8, 9, 5]
>>> [random.randint(1, 10) for i in range(5)]
[9, 1, 3, 5, 5]

Thank you.
That answer helps me understand generators better.