test_format fails (was: Re: RELEASED Python 2.4, alpha 1)

[Tim Peters]

[Irmen de Jong]
,,,
> As Michael Hudson pointed out it's probably a test that
> messes with the locale settings and forgets to set them back,
> or some such.

In case you don't already know it, regrtest.py's little-used -f
argument lets you specify a file, containing the names of the tests
you want to run.  It ignore lines in the file starting with '#'.  So
it's a convenient way to do a binary-search kind of reduction when
looking for a minimal *set* of failing tests:  edit the file, run,
stick '#' in front of half the remaining lines if it still fails then,
etc.