Issue #14123: Explicitly mention that old style % string formatting has caveats
but is not going away any time soon.
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 5f5d3b6..153ee44 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1437,8 +1437,13 @@
.. note::
- The formatting operations described here are obsolete and may go away in future
- versions of Python. Use the new :ref:`string-formatting` in new code.
+ The formatting operations described here are modelled on C's printf()
+ syntax. They only support formatting of certain builtin types. The
+ use of a binary operator means that care may be needed in order to
+ format tuples and dictionaries correctly. As the new
+ :ref:`string-formatting` syntax is more flexible and handles tuples and
+ dictionaries naturally, it is recommended for new code. However, there
+ are no current plans to deprecate printf-style formatting.
String objects have one unique built-in operation: the ``%`` operator (modulo).
This is also known as the string *formatting* or *interpolation* operator.