Undocumented handling of thousands separator for floats and differences wrt Decimal

Bug report

Bug description:

In docs we have:

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.

The '_' option signals the use of an underscore for a thousands separator for floating-point presentation types and for integer presentation type 'd'. For integer presentation types 'b', 'o', 'x', and 'X', underscores will be inserted every 4 digits. For other presentation types, specifying this option is an error.

But this doesn't specify how separators are inserted for customized alignment, consider:

>>> format(0.0, '>020_f')
'0000000000000.000000'
>>> format(0.0, '<020_f')
'0.000000000000000000'
>>> format(0.0, '=020_f')
'0_000_000_000.000000'
>>> format(0.0, '^020_f')
'0000000.000000000000'

Probably it's obvious, that separators might be inserted only in case of 0-padding and = alignment, though maybe this should be mentioned explicitly.

Note also that neither from above supported by Decimal/Fraction, e.g.:

>>> format(Decimal(0.0), '=020_f')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-13>", line 1, in <module>
    format(Decimal(0.0), '=020_f')
    ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: invalid format string
>>> format(Fraction(0.0), '=020_f')
'            0.000000'
>>> format(float(Fraction(0.0)), '=020_f')
'0_000_000_000.000000'

BTW, the rationale for Fraction's behavior (see https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100161) is "no special-casing of the particular '0=' fill-character/alignment combination", which is rather weak, IMO.

Either this should be fixed (preferred) or documented.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

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Linked PRs

• gh-131030
• gh-131067
• gh-132155
• gh-136241
• gh-136242
• gh-136649

Beginne mit dem Lesen der Dokumentation zur Format Specification Mini-Language und reproduziere die Beispiele für float, Decimal und Fraction im Issue. Sieh dir die verlinkten PRs an, um die bereits laufenden Arbeiten zu verstehen. Als erledigt gilt die konsistente Behebung des Verhaltens von Separator und Ausrichtung oder die Dokumentation der beobachteten Regeln.