all Python 3localefunction

locale.getdefaultlocale()

locale setup

Guesses the user's locale from the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG and LANGUAGE environment variables and returns (language code, encoding).

Syntax

locale.getdefaultlocale(envvars=('LC_ALL', 'LC_CTYPE', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE'))

It reads environment variables, not the process's active locale, so it disagrees with getlocale() after setlocale() and knows nothing of UTF-8 mode. It was deprecated in 3.11 with a plan to drop it in 3.15, and on 3.11-3.13 a call prints DeprecationWarning; 3.15 (and recent 3.14 releases) reverted the deprecation. For the encoding prefer getencoding(), for the locale setlocale(LC_ALL, '') plus getlocale().

Examples

import locale
import warnings
with warnings.catch_warnings():
    warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)  # 3.11–3.13 предупреждают
    print(locale.getdefaultlocale())  # → ? ('ru_RU', 'UTF-8') — по переменным окружения
print(locale.getlocale())  # → ? — а это действующая локаль процесса

locale.getdefaultlocale()

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