diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index ef0cfb0e76cef6..8dd5d61c0def83 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ be found in any statistics text.
    depending on floating-point rounding in the expression
    ``a + (b-a) * random()``.
 
+   .. note::
+      The value *b* is not included in the range due to the underlying implementation.
+      The random number N is drawn from a uniform distribution over the half-open interval ``[*a*, *b*\)``.
+
 
 .. function:: triangular(low, high, mode)