https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ce1abaf9b83f8535749c6d3d0a0fabf15d87079f
commit: ce1abaf9b83f8535749c6d3d0a0fabf15d87079f
branch: main
author: Sergey B Kirpichev <[email protected]>
committer: vstinner <[email protected]>
date: 2026-03-11T14:25:24+01:00
summary:

gh-99875: Document rounding mode for old-style formatting (#126382)

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index a70bda47da6f43..6b55daa9b6eae0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -3202,6 +3202,10 @@ The conversion types are:
 |            | character in the result.                            |       |
 +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
 
+For floating-point formats, the result should be correctly rounded to a given
+precision ``p`` of digits after the decimal point.  The rounding mode matches
+that of the :func:`round` builtin.
+
 Notes:
 
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