stas@mobi:~$ locale
LANG=nb_NO
[...]

stas@mobi:~$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 24 2004, 08:39:09) 
[GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-12)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 346, in
getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 280, in
_parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: nb_NO
>>>