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

Django's i18n framework works out the shortcomings of setlocale() by not using it. This way the locale is set per request and if you use LocaleMiddleware it can be set to change according to UserAgent Accept-Language setting. See the docs.