Unknown locale error for Malayalam language in Python

[maxinbjohn]

Dear friends,

 I am a Python programmer from Kerala, India. When I tried to run a
simple python program which uses the Malayalam language (ml),

import os
import locale
os.environ['LANG']='ml'
print locale.getdefaultlocale()


It throws the following error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 4, in ?
    print locale.getdefaultlocale()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 346, in
getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 278, in
_parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: ml

Thanks in advance.

Maxin B. John