diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index fe9ca9ccb9c7e0..059ea7882977f2 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ printing space-separated values. There are several ways to format output.
      >>> yes_votes = 42_572_654
      >>> no_votes = 43_132_495
      >>> percentage = yes_votes / (yes_votes + no_votes)
+     >>> # Print yes_votes padded with spaces and a negative sign only for negative numbers
+     >>> # Also print percentage multiplied by 100, with 2 decimal places and followed by a percent sign:
      >>> '{:-9} YES votes  {:2.2%}'.format(yes_votes, percentage)
      ' 42572654 YES votes  49.67%'
 
@@ -197,7 +199,12 @@ notation. ::
    Jack: 4098; Sjoerd: 4127; Dcab: 8637678
 
 This is particularly useful in combination with the built-in function
-:func:`vars`, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables.
+:func:`vars`, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables. ::
+
+   >>> table = {k: str(v) for k, v in vars().items()}
+   >>> message = " ".join([f'{k}: ' + '{' + k +'};' for k in table.keys()])
+   >>> print(message.format(**table))
+   __name__: __main__; __doc__: None; __package__: None; __loader__: <class '_frozen_importlib.BuiltinImporter'>; __spec__: None; __annotations__: {}; __builtins__: <module 'builtins' (built-in)>;
 
 As an example, the following lines produce a tidily aligned
 set of columns giving integers and their squares and cubes::