From fc349862d43c423ea575d73b04b22914cbdb7b2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:15:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

---
 Lib/test/test_locale.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 4fb042a7998..91646ee2a07 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: