Locale sensitive date time parsing in Python

Asked Jul 03 '18 at 23:22

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I need to parse a date time in a non-English language, on a machine running with an en-us locale. The easy solution to this problem would be to do setlocale and then proceed to strptime.

The problem is that if you setlocale, it gets set program-wide. However, due to the nature of my program, many threads are running and run locale sensitive processes.

This means setlocale is not an option, because it messes with it globally. How can I strptime with a different locale?

asked Jul 03 '18 at 23:22

Misguided

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Here's a thread-safe way: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18593661/how-do-i-strftime-a-date-object-in-a-different-locale – jspcal Jul 03 '18 at 23:27
Using a lock seems like overkill for something that should be solvable without it – Misguided Jul 03 '18 at 23:28
an alternative is to use another library like Babel: http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/api/dates.html – jspcal Jul 03 '18 at 23:31
Babel doesn't seem to have the feature that I need (parse with formatting) – Misguided Jul 03 '18 at 23:43

Locale sensitive date time parsing in Python

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