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[3.11] Backport docstring improvement from 3.12 #98288

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Backport docstring improvement from 3.12
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Merge branch '3.11' into randrange_docstring
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Lib/random.py
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Expand Up @@ -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.

"""

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