#1176: document that string methods don't take keyword args.
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index c2c274d..b509e2e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -660,7 +660,9 @@
.. index:: pair: string; methods
Below are listed the string methods which both 8-bit strings and Unicode objects
-support. In addition, Python's strings support the sequence type methods
+support. Note that none of these methods take keyword arguments.
+
+In addition, Python's strings support the sequence type methods
described in the :ref:`typesseq` section. To output formatted strings
use template strings or the ``%`` operator described in the
:ref:`string-formatting` section. Also, see the :mod:`re` module for