diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index 050d74c..37d9f41 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 as well, making it useful for implementing "pretty-printers," including
 colorizers for on-screen displays.
 
+To simplify token stream handling, all :ref:`operators` and :ref:`delimiters`
+tokens are returned using the generic :data:`token.OP` token type.  The exact
+type can be determined by checking the ``exact_type`` property on the
+:term:`named tuple` returned from :func:`tokenize.tokenize`.
+
 Tokenizing Input
 ----------------
 
@@ -36,9 +41,17 @@
    returned as a :term:`named tuple` with the field names:
    ``type string start end line``.
 
+   The returned :term:`named tuple` has a additional property named
+   ``exact_type`` that contains the exact operator type for
+   :data:`token.OP` tokens.  For all other token types ``exact_type``
+   equals the named tuple ``type`` field.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Added support for named tuples.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+      Added support for ``exact_type``.
+
    :func:`tokenize` determines the source encoding of the file by looking for a
    UTF-8 BOM or encoding cookie, according to :pep:`263`.
 
@@ -131,7 +144,19 @@
 
 .. code-block:: sh
 
-   python -m tokenize [filename.py]
+   python -m tokenize [-e] [filename.py]
+
+The following options are accepted:
+
+.. program:: tokenize
+
+.. cmdoption:: -h, --help
+
+   show this help message and exit
+
+.. cmdoption:: -e, --exact
+
+   display token names using the exact type
 
 If :file:`filename.py` is specified its contents are tokenized to stdout.
 Otherwise, tokenization is performed on stdin.
@@ -215,3 +240,29 @@
     4,10-4,11:          OP             ')'
     4,11-4,12:          NEWLINE        '\n'
     5,0-5,0:            ENDMARKER      ''
+
+The exact token type names can be displayed using the ``-e`` option:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+    $ python -m tokenize -e hello.py
+    0,0-0,0:            ENCODING       'utf-8'
+    1,0-1,3:            NAME           'def'
+    1,4-1,13:           NAME           'say_hello'
+    1,13-1,14:          LPAR           '('
+    1,14-1,15:          RPAR           ')'
+    1,15-1,16:          COLON          ':'
+    1,16-1,17:          NEWLINE        '\n'
+    2,0-2,4:            INDENT         '    '
+    2,4-2,9:            NAME           'print'
+    2,9-2,10:           LPAR           '('
+    2,10-2,25:          STRING         '"Hello, World!"'
+    2,25-2,26:          RPAR           ')'
+    2,26-2,27:          NEWLINE        '\n'
+    3,0-3,1:            NL             '\n'
+    4,0-4,0:            DEDENT         ''
+    4,0-4,9:            NAME           'say_hello'
+    4,9-4,10:           LPAR           '('
+    4,10-4,11:          RPAR           ')'
+    4,11-4,12:          NEWLINE        '\n'
+    5,0-5,0:            ENDMARKER      ''