In order to make this test work on Windows, the test locale has to be
set to 'en' there -- Windows does not understand the 'en_US' locale.
The test succeeds there.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 4fb042a..91646ee 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
from test_support import verbose
import locale
+import sys
oldlocale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC)
+tloc = "en_US"
+if sys.platform[:3] == "win":
+ tloc = "en"
+
try:
- locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, "en_US")
+ locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, tloc)
except locale.Error:
- raise ImportError, "test locale en_US not supported"
+ raise ImportError, "test locale %s not supported" % tloc
def testformat(formatstr, value, grouping = 0, output=None):
if verbose: