xlocale 1.0

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This package exposes part of the xlocale-family of C functions to Python. This is particularly useful to set the locale per-thread.

Normally you use the locale.setlocale function to change the locale for the entire process:

import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'nl_NL')

This may not be desirable for webservers or other applications that use multiple threads. To change the locale for just the current thread you do this:

import xlocale

loc = xlocale.Locale(xlocale.LC_ALL_MASK, 'nl_NL')
loc.use()

Creating a locale object

xlocale.Locale([mask[, locale[, base]])

Create a new locale object. The new locale is created by taken a base locale and changing one or more locale categories. If no base is given the C locale will be used.

mask is a bitmask build from the LC_*_MASK constants. Normally you will want to use LC_ALL_MASK to change the locale completely.

locale is a string with the locale name. If not provided the C locale will be used.

xlocale.Locale.current_locale()

Return a Locale instance for the currently locale.

Locale instances

Locale.use()

Switch the locale for the current thread. This will also return a Locale instance for the previously active locale.

Locale.name(mask)

Return the name for a locale category. mask is a bitmask of locale categories, and the name for the first configured category will be returned.

This method is not available on all platforms, and will raise an exception on unsupported platforms.

Locale.lconv()

Return information describing how numbers and currency values must be displayed in the current locale. This is an object with the following attributes:

decimal_point	The decimal point character, except for currency values, cannot be an empty string.
thousands_sep	The separator between groups of digits before the decimal point, except for currency values.
grouping	The sizes of the groups of digits, except for currency This is a list of integers representing group size from low order digit groups to high order (right to left). The list may be terminated with 0 or CHAR_MAX. If the list is terminated with 0 the last group size before the 0 is repeated to account for all the digits. If the list isterminated with CHAR_MAX, no more grouping is performed.
int_curr_symbol	The standardized international currency symbol.
currency_symbol	The local currency symbol.
mon_decimal_point	The decimal point character for currency values.
mon_thousands_sep	The separator for digit groups in currency values.
mon_grouping	Like grouping but for currency values.
positive_sign	The character used to denote nonnegative currency values, usually the empty string.
negative_sign	The character used to denote negative currency values, usually a minus sign.
int_frac_digits	The number of digits after the decimal point in an international-style currency value.
frac_digits	The number of digits after the decimal point in the locale style for currency values.
p_cs_precedes	True if the currency symbol precedes the currency value for nonnegative values, False if it follows.
p_sep_by_space	True if a space is inserted between the currency symbol and the currency value for nonnegative values, False otherwise.
n_cs_precedes	Like p_cs_precedes but for negative values.
n_sep_by_space	Like p_sep_by_space but for negative values.
p_sign_posn	The location of the positive_sign with respect to a nonnegative quantity and the currency_symbol, coded as follows: 0 - Parentheses around the entire string. 1 - Before the string. 2 - After the string. 3 - Just before currency_symbol. 4 - Just after currency_symbol.
n_sign_posn	Like p_sign_posn but for negative currency values.
int_p_cs_precedes	Same as p_cs_precedes, but for internationally monetary quantities. formatted monetary quantities.
int_n_cs_precedes	Same as n_cs_precedes, but for internationally monetary quantities. formatted monetary quantities.
int_p_sep_by_space	Same as p_sep_by_space, but for internationally formatted monetary quantities.
int_n_sep_by_space	Same as n_sep_by_space, but for internationally formatted monetary quantities.
int_p_sign_posn	Same as p_sign_posn, but for internationally formatted monetary quantities.
int_n_sign_posn	Same as n_sign_posn, but for internationally formatted monetary quantities.

Constants

Constant	Description
LC_COLLATE_MASK	Collation
LC_CTYPE_MASK	Character type
LC_MESSAGES_MASK	Messages
LC_MONETARY_MASK	Monetary
LC_NUMERIC_MASK	Numeric
LC_TIME_MASK	Time
LC_ALL_MASK	Combination of all of the above.

Changelog

1.0 - August 27, 2014

• First release