comments, docstrings or error messages. I fixed two minor things in
test_winreg.py ("didn't" -> "Didn't" and "Didnt" -> "Didn't").

There is a minor style issue involved: Guido seems to have preferred English
grammar (behaviour, honour) in a couple places. This patch changes that to
American, which is the more prominent style in the source. I prefer English
myself, so if English is preferred, I'd be happy to supply a patch myself ;)

-- added a few extra comments to locale.py

  checked for the wrong exception.  my fault.  sorry.
  (first reported by Alex Coventry)

  function is overridden by a python version which accepts
  *either* a string (old behaviour) or a locale tuple.

- renamed a few methods (for consistency):

        get_locale => getlocale
        get_default_locale => getdefaultlocale
        set_to_default => resetlocale (!)

- the _locale implementation module can now implement
  an optional _getdefaultlocale function.  if that function
  isn't available, a POSIX-based approach is used (checking
  LANG and other environment variables, as usual).

(patch #100765)

Added emulations of the C APIs in _locale to be used when the
_locale module is not enabled. They return the correct values
assuming the 'C' locale.

Added a new locale name aliasing engine which also supports
locale encodings, a feature which is used by the new default
encoding support in site.py.

*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.

format(), str(), atof(), and atoi().  The last three are locale
sensitive versions of the corresponding standard functions (only for
numbers though); format() does general %[efg] formatting taking the
locale into account, optionally with thousands grouping.