diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
index 28e6ad7..02ba115 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@
    >>> a.sort()
    >>> a
    [-1, 1, 66.25, 333, 333, 1234.5]
+   >>> a.pop()
+   1234.5
+   >>> a
+   [-1, 1, 66.25, 333, 333]
+
+You might have noticed that methods like ``insert``, ``remove`` or ``sort`` that
+only modify the list have no return value printed -- they return the default
+``None``. [1]_  This is a design principle for all mutable data structures in
+Python.
 
 
 .. _tut-lists-as-stacks: