diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 542a5bc6..cdced6b9 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -132,6 +132,31 @@ Requests makes it simple to upload Multipart-encoded files::
       "data": ""
     }
 
+Setting filename explicitly::
+
+    >>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
+    >>> files = {'file': ('report.xls', open('report.xls', 'rb'))}
+
+    >>> r = requests.post(url, files=files)
+    >>> r.content
+    {
+      "origin": "179.13.100.4",
+      "files": {
+        "file": "<censored...binary...data>"
+      },
+      "form": {},
+      "url": "http://httpbin.org/post",
+      "args": {},
+      "headers": {
+        "Content-Length": "3196",
+        "Accept-Encoding": "identity, deflate, compress, gzip",
+        "Accept": "*/*",
+        "User-Agent": "python-requests/0.8.0",
+        "Host": "httpbin.org:80",
+        "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=127.0.0.1.502.21746.1321131593.786.1"
+      },
+      "data": ""
+    }
 
 
 Response Status Codes
diff --git a/requests/api.py b/requests/api.py
index 56702db1..9e0c96f5 100644
--- a/requests/api.py
+++ b/requests/api.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def request(method, url,
     :param data: (optional) Dictionary or bytes to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
     :param headers: (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with the :class:`Request`.
     :param cookies: (optional) Dict or CookieJar object to send with the :class:`Request`.
-    :param files: (optional) Dictionary of 'filename': file-like-objects for multipart encoding upload.
+    :param files: (optional) Dictionary of 'name': file-like-objects (or {'name': ('filename', fileobj)}) for multipart encoding upload.
     :param auth: (optional) Auth typle to enable Basic/Digest/Custom HTTP Auth.
     :param timeout: (optional) Float describing the timeout of the request.
     :param allow_redirects: (optional) Boolean. Set to True if POST/PUT/DELETE redirect following is allowed.