diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 9b64c7d..25f34bf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 ====================    ============================    =================================================   =============================================================
 :func:`accumulate`      p [,func]                       p0, p0+p1, p0+p1+p2, ...                            ``accumulate([1,2,3,4,5]) --> 1 3 6 10 15``
 :func:`chain`           p, q, ...                       p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ...                      ``chain('ABC', 'DEF') --> A B C D E F``
+chain.from_iterable     iterable                        p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ...                      ``chain.from_iterable(['ABC', 'DEF']) --> A B C D E F``
 :func:`compress`        data, selectors                 (d[0] if s[0]), (d[1] if s[1]), ...                 ``compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) --> A C E F``
 :func:`dropwhile`       pred, seq                       seq[n], seq[n+1], starting when pred fails          ``dropwhile(lambda x: x<5, [1,4,6,4,1]) --> 6 4 1``
 :func:`filterfalse`     pred, seq                       elements of seq where pred(elem) is False           ``filterfalse(lambda x: x%2, range(10)) --> 0 2 4 6 8``
diff --git a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
index 4bc9192..0123181 100644
--- a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 /* Itertools module written and maintained
    by Raymond D. Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
-   Copyright (c) 2003 Python Software Foundation.
+   Copyright (c) 2003-2013 Python Software Foundation.
    All rights reserved.
 */
 
@@ -4456,6 +4456,7 @@
 Iterators terminating on the shortest input sequence:\n\
 accumulate(p[, func]) --> p0, p0+p1, p0+p1+p2\n\
 chain(p, q, ...) --> p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ... \n\
+chain.from_iterable([p, q, ...]) --> p0, p1, ... plast, q0, q1, ... \n\
 compress(data, selectors) --> (d[0] if s[0]), (d[1] if s[1]), ...\n\
 dropwhile(pred, seq) --> seq[n], seq[n+1], starting when pred fails\n\
 groupby(iterable[, keyfunc]) --> sub-iterators grouped by value of keyfunc(v)\n\