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Under locale:

Tell the users that they must do: locale.setlocale(locale.LCALL, 'EnglishUnited States.1252') or else they will get the C locale. This doesn't matter if you want English_United States, but matters a lot when you don't. The interactive interpreter already does this, so you end up in the frustrating situation where something works in the interactive interpreter and fails in your app.