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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 48c0c58..26bac21 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -154,7 +154,12 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
* The :func:`str` of a float or complex number is now the same as it
:func:`repr`. Previously, the :func:`str` form was shorter but that just
caused confusion and is no longer needed now that we the shortest possible
- :func:`repr` is displayed by default.
+ :func:`repr` is displayed by default::
+
+ >>> repr(math.pi)
+ '3.141592653589793'
+ >>> str(math.pi)
+ '3.141592653589793'
(Proposed and implemented by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`9337`).