bpo-36018: Make "seed" into a keyword only argument (GH-12921)
diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst
index b62bcfd..fb7df4e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
:exc:`StatisticsError` because it takes at least one point to estimate
a central value and at least two points to estimate dispersion.
- .. method:: NormalDist.samples(n, seed=None)
+ .. method:: NormalDist.samples(n, *, seed=None)
Generates *n* random samples for a given mean and standard deviation.
Returns a :class:`list` of :class:`float` values.
diff --git a/Lib/statistics.py b/Lib/statistics.py
index 4a0978c..19db8e8 100644
--- a/Lib/statistics.py
+++ b/Lib/statistics.py
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
xbar = fmean(data)
return cls(xbar, stdev(data, xbar))
- def samples(self, n, seed=None):
+ def samples(self, n, *, seed=None):
'Generate *n* samples for a given mean and standard deviation.'
gauss = random.gauss if seed is None else random.Random(seed).gauss
mu, sigma = self.mu, self.sigma