Python: Essential Reference, Third Edition

locale

The locale module provides access to the POSIX locale database, which allows programmers to handle certain cultural issues in an application without knowing all the specifics of each country where the software is executed. A “locale” defines a set of parameters that describe the representation of strings, time, numbers, and currency. These parameters are grouped into the following category codes:

Category	Description
LC_CTYPE	Character conversion and comparison.
LC_COLLATE	String sorting. Affects strcoll() and strxfrm().
LC_TIME	Time formatting. Affects time.strftime().
LC_MONETARY	Formatting of monetary values.
LC_MESSAGES	Message display. This may affect error messages returned by functions such as os.strerror().
LC_NUMERIC	Number formatting. Affects ...