diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst
index c7d94e0680f0eb..c7620b03284345 100644
--- a/Doc/library/random.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/random.rst
@@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ from the combinatoric iterators in the :mod:`itertools` module:
        return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)
 
    def random_combination_with_replacement(iterable, r):
-       "Random selection from itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iterable, r)"
+       "Choose r elements with replacement.  Order the result to match the iterable."
+       # Result will be in set(itertools.combinations_with_replacement(iterable, r)).
        pool = tuple(iterable)
        n = len(pool)
        indices = sorted(random.choices(range(n), k=r))