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authorRalf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>2020-04-25 16:13:27 +0200
committerRalf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>2020-04-25 16:13:27 +0200
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DOC: add a note on sampling 2-D arrays to random.choice docstring
Addresses a comment on gh-10835.
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+++ b/numpy/random/mtrand.pyx
@@ -848,6 +848,11 @@ cdef class RandomState:
randint, shuffle, permutation
Generator.choice: which should be used in new code
+ Notes
+ -----
+ Sampling random rows from a 2-D array is not possible with this function,
+ but is possible with `Generator.choice` through its ``axis`` keyword.
+
Examples
--------
Generate a uniform random sample from np.arange(5) of size 3: