SF patch 629637:  Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 89f1e2f..addd5ae 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@
 
 - Added operator.pow(a,b) which is equivalent to a**b.
 
+- Added random.sample(population,k) for random sampling without replacement.
+  Returns a k length list of unique elements chosen from the population.								    
+
 - random.randrange(-sys.maxint-1, sys.maxint) no longer raises
   OverflowError.  That is, it now accepts any combination of 'start'
   and 'stop' arguments so long as each is in the range of Python's