diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
index d9a15fa7003..0f607c40221 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ from urls and :mod:`smtplib` for sending mail::
 
    >>> from urllib.request import urlopen
    >>> for line in urlopen('http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl'):
+   ...     line = line.decode('utf-8')  # Decoding the binary data to text.
    ...     if 'EST' in line or 'EDT' in line:  # look for Eastern Time
    ...         print(line)