> c) constantly working at making the latest and greatest Android-friendly

But that is precisely what "Android support", should it be added, means:
It does take constant work (and build slaves) to support a platform.


Unrelatedly, regarding the localeconv changes: 

I cannot find any bugreport for localeconv at

  https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list .


Before we add workarounds to Python, it would be nice to have
at least a record that the Android developers actually *did*
refuse to add a simple struct lconv (trivial for en_US!).

How about opening an Android issue?