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diff --git a/Lib/random.py b/Lib/random.py
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--- a/Lib/random.py
+++ b/Lib/random.py
@@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
## -------------------- 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.
"""