diff -r da485c6c744e Doc/library/typing.rst
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst	Mon Sep 12 19:27:46 2016 +0200
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst	Mon Sep 12 21:03:41 2016 +0200
@@ -772,22 +772,29 @@
    ``Pattern[str]``, ``Pattern[bytes]``, ``Match[str]``, or
    ``Match[bytes]``.
 
-.. function:: NamedTuple(typename, fields)
+.. class:: NamedTuple
 
    Typed version of namedtuple.
 
    Usage::
 
-       Employee = typing.NamedTuple('Employee', [('name', str), ('id', int)])
+       class Employee(NamedTuple):
+           name: str
+           id: int
 
    This is equivalent to::
 
        Employee = collections.namedtuple('Employee', ['name', 'id'])
 
-   The resulting class has one extra attribute: _field_types,
+   The resulting class has one extra attribute: ``_field_types``,
    giving a dict mapping field names to types.  (The field names
-   are in the _fields attribute, which is part of the namedtuple
-   API.)
+   are in the ``_fields`` attribute, which is part of the namedtuple
+   API.) Backward-compatible usage::
+
+       Employee = NamedTuple('Employee', [('name', str), ('id', int)])
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      Added support for :pep:`526` variable annotation syntax.
 
 .. function:: NewType(typ)