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+++ b/python/pyspark/rdd.py
@@ -386,6 +386,11 @@ class RDD(object):
with replacement: expected number of times each element is chosen; fraction must be >= 0
:param seed: seed for the random number generator
+ .. note::
+
+ This is not guaranteed to provide exactly the fraction specified of the total count
+ of the given :class:`DataFrame`.
+
>>> rdd = sc.parallelize(range(100), 4)
>>> 6 <= rdd.sample(False, 0.1, 81).count() <= 14
True