Using Python locale or equivalent in web applications?

Question

Python\'s locale implementation seems to want to either read the locale from system settings or have it be set via a setlocale call. Neither of these work for me since I\'d like

Answer 1

Your best approach will be to setlocale on the locale that the browser passes you, if you're doing currencies, dates, and numbers. There's a lot of zomgz warnings in the Python documentation for really off-color platforms; most of these can be ignored.

"Frequent locale changes" shouldn't matter, unless I'm missing something.

You're not doing message catalogs or anything fancy, so stick with what Python gives you.