babel.core.Locale

Undocumented

The text direction for the language.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').character_order
'left-to-right'
>>> Locale('ar', 'SA').character_order
'right-to-left'

Mapping of currency codes to translated currency names. This only returns the generic form of the currency name, not the count specific one. If an actual number is requested use the babel.numbers.get_currency_name function.

>>> Locale('en').currencies['COP']
u'Colombian Peso'
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').currencies['COP']
u'Kolumbianischer Peso'

Locale patterns for currency number formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').currency_formats['standard']
<NumberPattern u'\xa4#,##0.00'>
>>> Locale('en', 'US').currency_formats['accounting']
<NumberPattern u'\xa4#,##0.00;(\xa4#,##0.00)'>

Mapping of currency codes to symbols.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').currency_symbols['USD']
u'$'
>>> Locale('es', 'CO').currency_symbols['USD']
u'US$'

Locale patterns for date formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').date_formats['short']
<DateTimePattern u'M/d/yy'>
>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').date_formats['long']
<DateTimePattern u'd MMMM y'>

Locale patterns for datetime formatting.

>>> Locale('en').datetime_formats['full']
u"{1} 'at' {0}"
>>> Locale('th').datetime_formats['medium']
u'{1} {0}'

Locale patterns for formatting parts of a datetime.

>>> Locale('en').datetime_skeletons['MEd']
<DateTimePattern u'E, M/d'>
>>> Locale('fr').datetime_skeletons['MEd']
<DateTimePattern u'E dd/MM'>
>>> Locale('fr').datetime_skeletons['H']
<DateTimePattern u"HH 'h'">

Locale display names for various day periods (not necessarily only AM/PM).

These are not meant to be used without the relevant day_period_rules.

Locale display names for weekdays.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').days['format']['wide'][3]
u'Donnerstag'

Locale patterns for decimal number formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').decimal_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#,##0.###'>

The english display name of the locale.

>>> Locale('de').english_name
u'German'
>>> Locale('de', 'DE').english_name
u'German (Germany)'

Locale display names for eras.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').eras['wide'][1]
u'Anno Domini'
>>> Locale('en', 'US').eras['abbreviated'][0]
u'BC'

The first day of a week, with 0 being Monday.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').first_week_day
0
>>> Locale('en', 'US').first_week_day
6

Locale patterns for interval formatting.

How to format date intervals in Finnish when the day is the smallest changing component:

>>> Locale('fi_FI').interval_formats['MEd']['d']
[u'E d. – ', u'E d.M.']

Mapping of language codes to translated language names.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').languages['ja']
u'Japanisch'

See ISO 639 for more information.

Patterns for generating lists

>>> Locale('en').list_patterns['standard']['start']
u'{0}, {1}'
>>> Locale('en').list_patterns['standard']['end']
u'{0}, and {1}'
>>> Locale('en_GB').list_patterns['standard']['end']
u'{0} and {1}'

Localized names for various measurement systems.

>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').measurement_systems['US']
u'am\xe9ricain'
>>> Locale('en', 'US').measurement_systems['US']
u'US'

Locale display names for meta time zones.

Meta time zones are basically groups of different Olson time zones that have the same GMT offset and daylight savings time.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').meta_zones['Europe_Central']['long']['daylight']
u'Central European Summer Time'

The minimum number of days in a week so that the week is counted as the first week of a year or month.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').min_week_days
4

Locale display names for months.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').months['format']['wide'][10]
u'Oktober'

Symbols used in number formatting.

>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').number_symbols['decimal']
u','

Plural rules for the locale.

>>> Locale('en').ordinal_form(1)
'one'
>>> Locale('en').ordinal_form(2)
'two'
>>> Locale('en').ordinal_form(3)
'few'
>>> Locale('fr').ordinal_form(2)
'other'
>>> Locale('ru').ordinal_form(100)
'other'

Locale patterns for percent number formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').percent_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#,##0%'>

Locale display names for day periods (AM/PM).

>>> Locale('en', 'US').periods['am']
u'AM'

Plural rules for the locale.

>>> Locale('en').plural_form(1)
'one'
>>> Locale('en').plural_form(0)
'other'
>>> Locale('fr').plural_form(0)
'one'
>>> Locale('ru').plural_form(100)
'many'

Locale display names for quarters.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').quarters['format']['wide'][1]
u'1. Quartal'

Locale patterns for scientific number formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').scientific_formats[None]
<NumberPattern u'#E0'>

Mapping of script codes to translated script names.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').scripts['Hira']
u'Hiragana'

See ISO 15924 for more information.

Mapping of script codes to translated script names.

>>> Locale('es', 'CO').territories['DE']
u'Alemania'

See ISO 3166 for more information.

The text direction for the language in CSS short-hand form.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').text_direction
'ltr'
>>> Locale('ar', 'SA').text_direction
'rtl'

Locale patterns for time formatting.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_formats['short']
<DateTimePattern u'h:mm a'>
>>> Locale('fr', 'FR').time_formats['long']
<DateTimePattern u'HH:mm:ss z'>

Locale display names for time zones.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_zones['Europe/London']['long']['daylight']
u'British Summer Time'
>>> Locale('en', 'US').time_zones['America/St_Johns']['city']
u'St. John’s'

Display names for units of measurement.

Mapping of script codes to translated script names.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').variants['1901']
u'Alte deutsche Rechtschreibung'

The day the weekend ends, with 0 being Monday.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').weekend_end
6

The day the weekend starts, with 0 being Monday.

>>> Locale('de', 'DE').weekend_start
5

Patterns related to the formatting of time zones.

>>> Locale('en', 'US').zone_formats['fallback']
u'%(1)s (%(0)s)'
>>> Locale('pt', 'BR').zone_formats['region']
u'Hor\xe1rio %s'