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locale.localeconv()

locale setup

Returns a dictionary of the current locale's conventions: decimal point, thousands separator, grouping and currency symbol.

Syntax

locale.localeconv()

The dictionary is a snapshot taken at call time: request it again after setlocale(). In the 'C' locale (in force until something calls setlocale) thousands_sep is empty and grouping is [], so grouping=True in format_string() groups nothing there. Monetary fields such as p_cs_precedes equal CHAR_MAX (127) in 'C', meaning 'unspecified', not a number.

Examples

import locale
conv = locale.localeconv()
print(conv['decimal_point'], conv['thousands_sep'] == '', conv['grouping'])  # → . True []
print(conv['p_cs_precedes'] == locale.CHAR_MAX)  # → True

See also

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