From 684b3e0e44c40acb0aa52d829a8c9dcbe40cc03f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:50:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Backport docstring improvement from 3.12

---
 Lib/random.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
index 1f3530e880fce2..f94616e048c554 100644
--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ def randbytes(self, n):
     ## -------------------- integer methods  -------------------
 
     def randrange(self, start, stop=None, step=_ONE):
-        """Choose a random item from range(start, stop[, step]).
+        """Choose a random item from range(stop) or range(start, stop[, step]).
 
-        This fixes the problem with randint() which includes the
-        endpoint; in Python this is usually not what you want.
+        Roughly equivalent to ``choice(range(start, stop, step))`` but
+        supports arbitrarily large ranges and is optimized for common cases.
 
         """