Temporarily override locale with a context manager

Question

Is there a way to temporarily activate a locale within the scope of a block of code? Basically, I want to do something like this:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_         


        

Answer 1

You can write an easy and straight-forward contextmanager for this:

from locale import getlocale, setlocale
from contextlib import contextmanager


@contextmanager
def override_locale(category, locale_string):
    prev_locale_string = getlocale(category)
    setlocale(category, locale_string)
    yield
    setlocale(category, prev_locale_string)