diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 21fe35edc1bef8..7f2ac051926940 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2139,6 +2139,15 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    Nonprintable characters are those in group Separator or Other (Z or C),
    except the ASCII space.
 
+   For example:
+
+   .. doctest::
+
+      >>> ''.isprintable(), ' '.isprintable()
+      (True, True)
+      >>> '\t'.isprintable(), '\n'.isprintable() # TAB and BREAK LINE
+      (False, False)
+
 
 .. method:: str.isspace()