diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index bf9198e175a0e1..2009bd012946a2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
    The file descriptor is :ref:`not inherited by child processes <fd_inheritance>`.
 
    Unlike :func:`TemporaryFile`, the user of :func:`mkstemp` is responsible
-   for deleting the temporary file when done with it.
+   for closing the file descriptor (for example, using :func:`os.close`) and
+   deleting the temporary file (for example, using :func:`os.remove`).
 
    If *suffix* is not ``None``, the file name will end with that suffix,
    otherwise there will be no suffix.  :func:`mkstemp` does not put a dot