Patch #1180296: improve locale string formatting functions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 1523e77..ec5a533 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@
 else:
     raise ImportError, "test locale not supported (tried %s)"%(', '.join(tlocs))
 
-def testformat(formatstr, value, grouping = 0, output=None):
+def testformat(formatstr, value, grouping = 0, output=None, func=locale.format):
     if verbose:
         if output:
             print "%s %% %s =? %s ..." %\
                 (repr(formatstr), repr(value), repr(output)),
         else:
             print "%s %% %s works? ..." % (repr(formatstr), repr(value)),
-    result = locale.format(formatstr, value, grouping = grouping)
+    result = func(formatstr, value, grouping = grouping)
     if output and result != output:
         if verbose:
             print 'no'
@@ -49,6 +49,27 @@
     testformat("%-10.f", 4200, grouping=1, output='4%s200     ' % sep)
     # Invoke getpreferredencoding to make sure it does not cause exceptions,
     locale.getpreferredencoding()
+
+    # === Test format() with more complex formatting strings
+    # test if grouping is independent from other characters in formatting string
+    testformat("One million is %i", 1000000, grouping=1, output='One million is 1,000,000',
+               func=locale.format_string)
+    testformat("One  million is %i", 1000000, grouping=1, output='One  million is 1,000,000',
+               func=locale.format_string)
+    # test dots in formatting string
+    testformat(".%f.", 1000.0, output='.1000.000000.', func=locale.format_string)
+    # test floats
+    testformat("--> %10.2f", 1000.0, grouping=1, output='-->   1,000.00',
+               func=locale.format_string)
+    # test asterisk formats
+    testformat("%10.*f", (2, 1000.0), grouping=0, output='   1000.00',
+               func=locale.format_string)
+    testformat("%*.*f", (10, 2, 1000.0), grouping=1, output='  1,000.00',
+               func=locale.format_string)
+    # test more-in-one
+    testformat("int %i float %.2f str %s", (1000, 1000.0, 'str'), grouping=1,
+               output='int 1,000 float 1,000.00 str str', func=locale.format_string)
+
 finally:
     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, oldlocale)