diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 4f7da5253f78bc..83162334b7707e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -689,7 +689,22 @@ such a mechanism, called :dfn:`name mangling`.  Any identifier of the form
 is textually replaced with ``_classname__spam``, where ``classname`` is the
 current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped.  This mangling is done
 without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it
-occurs within the definition of a class.
+occurs within the definition of a class. For example:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    class Employee:
+        __dept = 'computer lab'
+        def __detail(self):
+            print('Employee is from',self.__dept)
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+    >>> john = Employee()
+    >>> john._Employee__dept
+    'computer lab'
+    >>> john._Employee__detail()
+    Employee is from computer lab
 
 .. seealso::