diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index 332e3b0b79a1eb..e150baad3ef7f0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -1310,6 +1310,9 @@ The exception hierarchy is defined by the DB-API 2.0 (:pep:`249`).
    Use this to catch all errors with one single :keyword:`except` statement.
    ``Error`` is a subclass of :exc:`Exception`.
 
+   If the exception originated from within the SQLite library,
+   the following two attributes are added to the exception:
+
    .. attribute:: sqlite_errorcode
 
       The numeric error code from the