jager:~ humberto$ python2.5
>>> import locale
>>> locale.currency
<function currency at 0x80ef0>

# Here's the problem
>>> from locale import *
>>> currency
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'currency' is not defined


I'm sending two similar patches:
 * One that adds only the two new functions in Python 2.5 (currency and format_string)
 * Other that adds every public function defined inside locale.py (I checked and they're all properly documented):
   * currency, format_string, getdefaultlocale, getlocale, getpreferredencoding, normalize and resetlocale.

I did a simple test only to assure all names are right and it worked:
for f in locale.__all__: getattr(locale, f)

Now you choose which patch is better. :)

File Added: locale-2.5-currency-format_string.patch

Thanks for the patch, fixed in rev. 55038, 55039 (2.5).