locale — Cultural Localization API — PyMOTW 3
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The locale module is part of Python’s internationalization and localization support library. It provides a standard way to handle operations that may depend on the language or location of a user. For example, it handles formatting numbers as currency, comparing strings for sorting, and working with dates. It does not cover translation (see the gettext module) or Unicode encoding (see the codecs module).
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