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I had a problem with calendar.formatmonth()
Error message was 'Unsupported Locale'
Well, it seems that Windows (XP) does nothing accept to setlocale than ''
I changed /lib/calendar.py line 488 ff to
class different_locale:
 def __init__(self, locale):
 self.locale = locale
 def __enter__(self):
 _locale.setlocale(_locale.LC_TIME, '') # juebo
 self.oldlocale = _locale.getlocale(_locale.LC_TIME)
 # _locale.setlocale(_locale.LC_TIME, self.locale) # juebo
 def __exit__(self, *args):
 # _locale.setlocale(_locale.LC_TIME, self.oldlocale) #juebo
 _locale.setlocale(_locale.LC_TIME, '')
Well, I am absolute new to Python. So could anybody look over it

The code is mostly correct as it exists in the calendar module. You are running into issue 10466. Per my comment in that issue, it may be possible to put a workaround into the calendar module, but your suggestion isn't it, since your code would leave the locale modified, not restored to its value before the calendar function was called.
What happens if you replace the original setlocale call in __enter__ with a try/except, and if the set fails, redo the set call using ''? Does the save of oldlocale and its restore work in that case?

Yes, Issue 10466 seems to be the same problem. One could fix this one instance higher, not necessarily in Calendar.py.
As I said, I have "no idea" about Python (not yet). You could code this and I would test it.