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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.

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locale.setlocale()

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sorry for the basic question, but how do you set it? 'spanish' in locale.locale_alias.keys() True locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'spanish') Error: unsupported locale setting
locale.setlocale(local.LC_TIME, 'es_ES')
tried locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'es_ES') and still get Error: unsupported locale setting
Then for some reason your operating system's locale entries are missing.
sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8 did the trick; now your answer worked; thanks.
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On Ubuntu,

$> sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
$> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
$> python
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'es_ES.UTF-8')
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Also, have a look at the babel project.

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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())
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