From 8f967fa8cd013f0273b87fbd4ef25a872b9b1d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: blaisep <blaise@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:14:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add example for `str.center()`

WIP to fix #106318
---
 Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 3486a18b5cb1f0..ce613476854110 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1788,8 +1788,14 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
 
    Return centered in a string of length *width*. Padding is done using the
    specified *fillchar* (default is an ASCII space). The original string is
-   returned if *width* is less than or equal to ``len(s)``.
-
+   returned if *width* is less than or equal to ``len(s)``.  For example::
+
+      >>> 'Python'.center(10)
+      '  Python  '
+      >>> 'Python'.center(10, '-')
+      '--Python--'
+      >>> 'Python'.center(4)
+      'Python'
 
 
 .. method:: str.count(sub[, start[, end]])