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")

instead of getting:

Out[20]: 'Friday 2009-Jan-16'

i get spanish/french/german/... output

Out[20]: 'Viernes 2009-Ene-16'

without having to change my whole operating system's locale (i.e. just use python calls to dynamically set the locale and keep the changes scoped within my app)

Thanks.

Answer 1

locale.setlocale()

Answer 2

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 3

Also, have a look at the babel project.