Django's USE_L10N does not work

Question

I already set USE_L10N = True in settings.py

But in following view:

from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import intcomma

dev view_name(request):
     output = intcomma(123456)

Output is always "123,456" for all locales.

Answer 1

I think intcomma() does the same for all locales:

def intcomma(value):
    """
    Converts an integer to a string containing commas every three digits.
    For example, 3000 becomes '3,000' and 45000 becomes '45,000'.
    """
    orig = force_unicode(value)
    new = re.sub("^(-?\d+)(\d{3})", '\g<1>,\g<2>', orig)
    if orig == new:
        return new
    else:
        return intcomma(new)

intcomma.is_safe = True
register.filter(intcomma)

You can modify this function and pass the separator as an argument.

Answer 2

import locale
locale.format("%d", 123456, True)