Passing empty sequence to random.choice function leads to:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
ValueError: number of bits must be greater than zero

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
IndexError: Cannot choose from an empty sequence


* the ValueError doesn't add any useful information, only bloats stderr
* the "During handling" line indicates that something went wrong inside random.py


This patch uses `raise x from None` to hide the ValueError, resulting in much cleaner output.

-Tested on Python 3.7.0a0

Seems reasonable to me.

New changeset 0001ae913759 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.6':
Issue #29055: Suppress upstream exception for random.choice()
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0001ae913759

Thanks for the patch.

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