Django i18n and python locales (and dates)

Question

Hello everyone,

I've been playing with Django's i18n system and it seems to be mostly working. However, dates in model code seem to be causing a problem.

I use datetime.strftime to populate a few CHOICES tuples which are then used in forms.

From what I understood, django will set the locale to the user's choice so that datetime.strftime() will output in the appropriate language, but this doesn't seem to happen.

What am I missing here?

If I set the locale manually (eg. locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME,'de_DE.UTF-8') ) datetime does translate correctly.

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 1

Django does not set locale for translation, just loads translation catalog. To get desired effect you have either set locale (which is not a good option since it works process-wide) or use specialized library. I recommend Babel which has nice Django integration.