large population: sample(xrange(10000000), 60)
"""
- # XXX Although the documentation says `population` is "a sequence",
- # XXX attempts are made to cater to any iterable with a __len__
- # XXX method. This has had mixed success. Examples from both
- # XXX sides: sets work fine, and should become officially supported;
- # XXX dicts are much harder, and have failed in various subtle
- # XXX ways across attempts. Support for mapping types should probably
- # XXX be dropped (and users should pass mapping.keys() or .values()
- # XXX explicitly).
-
# Sampling without replacement entails tracking either potential
# selections (the pool) in a list or previous selections in a set.