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authorWolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>2018-04-05 17:19:44 +0200
committerRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2018-04-05 08:19:44 -0700
commit091e95e9004b794280ab35becec2c3e30dd5e96e (patch)
tree72be905acc5dd7a26b7a90a3d14efb58b99cbcad /Lib/test/test_random.py
parent74940913d26d9f94b8572eca794369841fa6d9b6 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-091e95e9004b794280ab35becec2c3e30dd5e96e.tar.gz
bpo-33203: Ensure random.choice always raises IndexError on empty sequence (GH-6338)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_random.py b/Lib/test/test_random.py
index 468c4a467e..eee245df48 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_random.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_random.py
@@ -651,7 +651,10 @@ class MersenneTwister_TestBasicOps(TestBasicOps, unittest.TestCase):
# Population range too large (n >= maxsize)
self.gen._randbelow(maxsize+1, maxsize = maxsize)
self.gen._randbelow(5640, maxsize = maxsize)
-
+ # issue 33203: test that _randbelow raises ValueError on
+ # n == 0 also in its getrandbits-independent branch.
+ with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+ self.gen._randbelow(0, maxsize=maxsize)
# This might be going too far to test a single line, but because of our
# noble aim of achieving 100% test coverage we need to write a case in
# which the following line in Random._randbelow() gets executed: