From 7bebb3e128f799d006cd023d053e55e4ca8a59a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Zverovich <victor.zverovich@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:40:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify overload resolution in docs

---
 doc/api.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/api.rst b/doc/api.rst
index 0c3a54d3..83c9340b 100644
--- a/doc/api.rst
+++ b/doc/api.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ They take *format_str* and *args* as arguments.
 
 *format_str* is a format string that contains literal text and replacement
 fields surrounded by braces ``{}``. The fields are replaced with formatted
-arguments in the resulting string.
+arguments in the resulting string. A function taking *format_str* doesn't
+participate in an overload resolution if the latter is not a string.
 
 *args* is an argument list representing objects to be formatted.