From 868aa06b669f7eb209ceaa8c964fe089aa939f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:47:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the thousands separator.

---
 Doc/library/string.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 861dd1faa0c..215e76d679d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ result as if you had called :func:`str` on the value.
 The general form of a *standard format specifier* is:
 
 .. productionlist:: sf
-   format_spec: [[`fill`]`align`][`sign`][#][0][`width`][.`precision`][`type`]
+   format_spec: [[`fill`]`align`][`sign`][#][0][`width`][,][.`precision`][`type`]
    fill: <a character other than '}'>
    align: "<" | ">" | "=" | "^"
    sign: "+" | "-" | " "
@@ -358,6 +358,10 @@ The ``'#'`` option is only valid for integers, and only for binary, octal, or
 hexadecimal output.  If present, it specifies that the output will be prefixed
 by ``'0b'``, ``'0o'``, or ``'0x'``, respectively.
 
+The ``','`` option signals the use of a comma for a thousands separator.
+For a locale aware separator, use the ``'n'`` integer presentation type
+instead.
+
 *width* is a decimal integer defining the minimum field width.  If not
 specified, then the field width will be determined by the content.