Improve the error message for choices(population, 10) (GH-25267)
diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 0df2664..3a835ae 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -518,7 +518,15 @@ def choices(self, population, weights=None, *, cum_weights=None, k=1):
floor = _floor
n += 0.0 # convert to float for a small speed improvement
return [population[floor(random() * n)] for i in _repeat(None, k)]
- cum_weights = list(_accumulate(weights))
+ try:
+ cum_weights = list(_accumulate(weights))
+ except TypeError:
+ if not isinstance(weights, int):
+ raise
+ k = weights
+ raise TypeError(
+ f'The number of choices must be a keyword argument: {k=}'
+ ) from None
elif weights is not None:
raise TypeError('Cannot specify both weights and cumulative weights')
if len(cum_weights) != n: