python datetime localization

Question

What do I need to do (modules to load, locale methods to invoke, etc.) so that when I call:

datetime.date(2009,1,16).strftime(\"%A %Y-%b-%d\")

Answer 1

After setting your locale (with locale.setlocale) You can use the locale modules' nl_langinfo method like so:

time.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_T_FMT), time.localtime())

Answer 2

On Ubuntu,

$> sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
$> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
$> python
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'es_ES.UTF-8')

Answer 3

Also, have a look at the babel project.

Answer 4

locale.setlocale()