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diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index 9e8e44a..a000bb4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -589,6 +589,11 @@ The available presentation types for :class:`float` and | | as altered by the other format modifiers. | +---------+----------------------------------------------------------+ +The result should be correctly rounded to a given precision ``p`` of digits +after the decimal point. The rounding mode for :class:`float` matches that +of the :func:`round` builtin. For :class:`~decimal.Decimal`, the rounding +mode of the current :ref:`context <decimal-context>` will be used. + The available presentation types for :class:`complex` are the same as those for :class:`float` (``'%'`` is not allowed). Both the real and imaginary components of a complex number are formatted as floating-point numbers, according to the |