[3.12] gh-127852: add remark about ',' separator (GH-127854) (#127942)

Specify that it is valid for floats and ints with 'd' presentation and an error otherwise.
---------

(cherry picked from commit e2325c9db0650fc06d909eb2b5930c0573f24f71)

Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>

diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index a000bb49f148006bee24a296da70d41a5bb10e1f..913672a3ff22703fbfd4e61c664ba8b970f44d83 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -409,7 +409,9 @@ conversions, trailing zeros are not removed from the result.
 
 .. index:: single: , (comma); in string formatting
 
-The ``','`` option signals the use of a comma for a thousands separator.
+The ``','`` option signals the use of a comma for a thousands separator for
+floating-point presentation types and for integer presentation type ``'d'``.
+For other presentation types, this option is an error.
 For a locale aware separator, use the ``'n'`` integer presentation type
 instead.