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

skirpichev · web-flow · commit ce1abaf9b83f · 2026-03-11T14:25:24.000+01:00
diff --git 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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