Locale and threads in python 2.1.3 and python 2.2.1

[Eugene Morozov]

Hello!
Here's a simple example which works correctly when using 2.2.1
interpreter and fails under 2.1.3 (text.lower() result isn't in
accordance with locale):
#######################################
import time, locale
from threading import Thread
from thread import start_new_thread

LOCALE='ru_RU.KOI8-R'
TEXT='????? ? ????'

class TestThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        Thread.__init__(self)

    def run(self):
        print 'In thread: %s' % TEXT.lower()

        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, LOCALE)
        print 'After setlocale in thread: %s' % TEXT.lower()

        
print 'Before setlocale: %s' % TEXT.lower()
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, LOCALE)
print 'After setlocale: %s' % TEXT.lower()

t = TestThread()
t.start()
#######################################

I cannot switch to python 2.2 because 2.1 is still required by Zope.
Does anyone know how to fix that without patching Zope to call
setlocale in every thread?
Eugene