Running locale.py as a module on Windows, using the Python command window, produces this output:

C:\Python31\Lib>locale.py
Locale aliasing:

Locale defaults as determined by getdefaultlocale():
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language:  de_DE
Encoding:  cp1252

Locale settings on startup:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
LC_NUMERIC ...
   Language:  (undefined)
   Encoding:  (undefined)

LC_MONETARY ...
   Language:  (undefined)
   Encoding:  (undefined)

LC_COLLATE ...
   Language:  (undefined)
   Encoding:  (undefined)

LC_CTYPE ...
   Language:  (undefined)
   Encoding:  (undefined)

LC_TIME ...
   Language:  (undefined)
   Encoding:  (undefined)


Locale settings after calling resetlocale():
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python31\Lib\locale.py", line 1798, in <module>
    _print_locale()
  File "C:\Python31\Lib\locale.py", line 1761, in _print_locale
    resetlocale()
  File "C:\Python31\Lib\locale.py", line 537, in resetlocale
    _setlocale(category, _build_localename(getdefaultlocale()))
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Tried with 2.7 on Windows XP, 32bit, 3.1.2 and 3.2a4 on Windows 7, 64bit. System character set in all cases cp1252 as usual for a German windows installation.

With 2.6, 2.6.5, 3.1.2 on Linux with UTF-8 system character set: no exception, expected output.