Python locale Functions
EditRocket provides the following information on locale functions in the Python source code builder.
atof(string) - Converts a string to a floating point number, following the LC_NUMERIC settings.
atoi(string) - Converts a string to an integer, following the LC_NUMERIC conventions.
currency(val[, symbol[, grouping[, international]]]) - Formats a number val according to the current LC_MONETARY settings.
format(format, val[, grouping[, monetary]]) - Formats a number val according to the current LC_NUMERIC setting.
format_string(format, val[, grouping]) - Processes formatting specifiers as in format % val, but takes the current locale settings into account.
getdefaultlocale([envvars]) - Tries to determine the default locale settings and returns them as a tuple of the form (language code, encoding).
getlocale([category]) - Returns the current setting for the given locale category as sequence containing language code, encoding.
getpreferredencoding([do_setlocale]) - Return the encoding used for text data, according to user preferences.
localeconv() - Returns the database of the local conventions as a dictionary.
nl_langinfo(option) -
resetlocale([category]) - Sets the locale for category to the default setting.
setlocale(category[, locale]) - If locale is specified, it may be a string, a tuple of the form (language code, encoding), or None.
str(float) - Formats a floating point number using the same format as the built-in function str(float), but takes the decimal point into account.
strcoll(string1, string2) - Compares two strings according to the current LC_COLLATE setting.
strxfrm(string) - Transforms a string to one that can be used for the built-in function cmp()
