Python Locales under windows

[Moof]

Hi there,
I'm trying to use some country-specific services provided by python 
under Windows, and I'm coming up with a couple of problems, specifically 
that floats are not being printed correctly when converted to strings 
(they print out as 1,024.36 instead of 1.024,36), and also the contents 
of \w inside a regexp, which I believe is equivalent to string.letters.

Under linux, I can get around this by setting the locale correctly. 
Under windows, I'm buggered if I can work out how:

 >>> print "%.2f" % 1024.36 # should be '1024,36'
1024.36
 >>> string.letters #should be 54 letters here, including ñÑ
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
 >>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
 >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('es_ES', 'cp1252')
 >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, locale.getdefaultlocale())
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
   File "C:\Python23\lib\locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: locale setting not supported

That's the clincher: I can't seem to set locales. Why is this? IS there 
a way to get around this?

I'm using python 2.3 under Windows XP and 2K.

Moof