locale module broken?

[Carsten Gaebler]

Hi there,

while playing around with Greg Lindstrom's "Pretty integers" (see his
posting), my Python 2.2 got stuck here:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "fr_FR")
'fr_FR'
>>> locale.format("%.1f", 12345.5, 1)

It runs forever. This is on RedHat 6.2 and Debian Potato. Any hints?
Note that I didn't "./configure --without-french". :-)

cg.
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