diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index fe9ca9ccb9c..857068a51ab 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -37,16 +37,23 @@ printing space-separated values. There are several ways to format output.
 * The :meth:`str.format` method of strings requires more manual
   effort.  You'll still use ``{`` and ``}`` to mark where a variable
   will be substituted and can provide detailed formatting directives,
-  but you'll also need to provide the information to be formatted.
+  but you'll also need to provide the information to be formatted. In the following code
+  block there are two examples of how to format variables:
+
 
   ::
 
      >>> yes_votes = 42_572_654
-     >>> no_votes = 43_132_495
-     >>> percentage = yes_votes / (yes_votes + no_votes)
+     >>> total_votes = 85_705_149
+     >>> percentage = yes_votes / total_votes
      >>> '{:-9} YES votes  {:2.2%}'.format(yes_votes, percentage)
      ' 42572654 YES votes  49.67%'
 
+  Notice how the ``yes_votes`` are padded with spaces and a negative sign only for negative numbers.
+  The example also prints ``percentage`` multiplied by 100, with 2 decimal
+  places and followed by a percent sign (see :ref:`formatspec` for details).
+
+
 * Finally, you can do all the string handling yourself by using string slicing and
   concatenation operations to create any layout you can imagine.  The
   string type has some methods that perform useful operations for padding
@@ -197,7 +204,12 @@ 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__: ...
 
 As an example, the following lines produce a tidily aligned
 set of columns giving integers and their squares and cubes::