#11405: do not reference the string module again for its deprecated functions, only for Template class.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 0e04962..ca908a3 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -19,16 +19,17 @@ the :keyword:`print` statement.  (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method
 of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``.
 See the Library Reference for more information on this.)
 
-.. index:: module: string
-
 Often you'll want more control over the formatting of your output than simply
 printing space-separated values.  There are two ways to format your output; the
 first way is to do all the string handling yourself; using string slicing and
 concatenation operations you can create any layout you can imagine.  The
-standard module :mod:`string` contains some useful operations for padding
+string types have some methods that perform useful operations for padding
 strings to a given column width; these will be discussed shortly.  The second
 way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method.
 
+The :mod:`string` module contains a :class:`~string.Template` class which offers
+yet another way to substitute values into strings.
+
 One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily,
 Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr`
 or :func:`str` functions.