How do I find all available locales in Python

How can I (on a GNU/Linux system) find all available locales to use with the module locale?

The only thing I find that is close in the the module is the dictionary locale_alias with aliases for locales.
That is sometimes mentioned as where to look what locales you have, but it doesn't contain all aliases. On my system this program

#! /usr/bin/python3

import locale

for k, v in sorted(locale.locale_alias.items()):

    if k.startswith('fr_') or v.startswith('fr_'):

        print('{:20}{}'.format(k, v))

prints

c-french            fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr                  fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_be               fr_BE.ISO8859-1

fr_ca               fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr_ch               fr_CH.ISO8859-1

fr_fr               fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_lu               fr_LU.ISO8859-1

français            fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fre_fr              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french.iso88591     fr_CH.ISO8859-1

french_france       fr_FR.ISO8859-1

ignoring all utf-8 locales, like 'fr_FR.utf8', which can indeed be used as argument for locale.setlocale. From the shell, locale -a | grep "^fr_.*utf8" gives

fr_BE.utf8

fr_CA.utf8

fr_CH.utf8

fr_FR.utf8

fr_LU.utf8

showing lots of options. (One way is of course to run this shell command from Python, but I would have thought there is a way to do this directly from Python.)

asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

pst

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Oddly, when I look for endswith(.utf8) I find more than the shell.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:21

locale_alias apparently sucks - stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/… - you are not alone.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:27

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How can I (on a GNU/Linux system) find all available locales to use with the module locale?

#! /usr/bin/python3

import locale

for k, v in sorted(locale.locale_alias.items()):

    if k.startswith('fr_') or v.startswith('fr_'):

        print('{:20}{}'.format(k, v))

prints

c-french            fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr                  fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_be               fr_BE.ISO8859-1

fr_ca               fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr_ch               fr_CH.ISO8859-1

fr_fr               fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_lu               fr_LU.ISO8859-1

français            fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fre_fr              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french.iso88591     fr_CH.ISO8859-1

french_france       fr_FR.ISO8859-1

ignoring all utf-8 locales, like 'fr_FR.utf8', which can indeed be used as argument for locale.setlocale. From the shell, locale -a | grep "^fr_.*utf8" gives

fr_BE.utf8

fr_CA.utf8

fr_CH.utf8

fr_FR.utf8

fr_LU.utf8

showing lots of options. (One way is of course to run this shell command from Python, but I would have thought there is a way to do this directly from Python.)

asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

pst

1857

Oddly, when I look for endswith(.utf8) I find more than the shell.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:21

locale_alias apparently sucks - stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/… - you are not alone.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:27

add a comment |

How can I (on a GNU/Linux system) find all available locales to use with the module locale?

#! /usr/bin/python3

import locale

for k, v in sorted(locale.locale_alias.items()):

    if k.startswith('fr_') or v.startswith('fr_'):

        print('{:20}{}'.format(k, v))

prints

c-french            fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr                  fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_be               fr_BE.ISO8859-1

fr_ca               fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr_ch               fr_CH.ISO8859-1

fr_fr               fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_lu               fr_LU.ISO8859-1

français            fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fre_fr              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french.iso88591     fr_CH.ISO8859-1

french_france       fr_FR.ISO8859-1

ignoring all utf-8 locales, like 'fr_FR.utf8', which can indeed be used as argument for locale.setlocale. From the shell, locale -a | grep "^fr_.*utf8" gives

fr_BE.utf8

fr_CA.utf8

fr_CH.utf8

fr_FR.utf8

fr_LU.utf8

showing lots of options. (One way is of course to run this shell command from Python, but I would have thought there is a way to do this directly from Python.)

asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

pst

1857

How can I (on a GNU/Linux system) find all available locales to use with the module locale?

#! /usr/bin/python3

import locale

for k, v in sorted(locale.locale_alias.items()):

    if k.startswith('fr_') or v.startswith('fr_'):

        print('{:20}{}'.format(k, v))

prints

c-french            fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr                  fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_be               fr_BE.ISO8859-1

fr_ca               fr_CA.ISO8859-1

fr_ch               fr_CH.ISO8859-1

fr_fr               fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fr_lu               fr_LU.ISO8859-1

français            fr_FR.ISO8859-1

fre_fr              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french              fr_FR.ISO8859-1

french.iso88591     fr_CH.ISO8859-1

french_france       fr_FR.ISO8859-1

ignoring all utf-8 locales, like 'fr_FR.utf8', which can indeed be used as argument for locale.setlocale. From the shell, locale -a | grep "^fr_.*utf8" gives

fr_BE.utf8

fr_CA.utf8

fr_CH.utf8

fr_FR.utf8

fr_LU.utf8

showing lots of options. (One way is of course to run this shell command from Python, but I would have thought there is a way to do this directly from Python.)

python locale

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asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

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asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

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asked Nov 15 '18 at 13:13

pst

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Oddly, when I look for endswith(.utf8) I find more than the shell.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:21

locale_alias apparently sucks - stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/… - you are not alone.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:27

add a comment |

Oddly, when I look for endswith(.utf8) I find more than the shell.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:21

locale_alias apparently sucks - stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/… - you are not alone.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:27

Oddly, when I look for endswith(.utf8) I find more than the shell.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:21

locale_alias apparently sucks - stackoverflow.com/questions/19709026/… - you are not alone.

– kabanus
Nov 15 '18 at 13:27

add a comment |

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It seems like there is no good way to to this directly from Python, so I'll answer how to run this shell command from Python.

#! /usr/bin/python3

import subprocess



def find_locales():

    out = subprocess.run(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout

    try:

        # Even though I use utf8 on my system output from "locale -a"

        # included "bokmål" in Latin-1. Then this won't work, but the

        # exception will.

        res = out.decode('utf-8')

    except:

        res = out.decode('latin-1')

    return res.rstrip('n').splitlines()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    for loc in find_locales():

        print(loc)

Note that subprocess.run is new in Python 3.5. For earlier Python versions, see this question on alternative ways to run shell commands.

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It seems like there is no good way to to this directly from Python, so I'll answer how to run this shell command from Python.

#! /usr/bin/python3

import subprocess



def find_locales():

    out = subprocess.run(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout

    try:

        # Even though I use utf8 on my system output from "locale -a"

        # included "bokmål" in Latin-1. Then this won't work, but the

        # exception will.

        res = out.decode('utf-8')

    except:

        res = out.decode('latin-1')

    return res.rstrip('n').splitlines()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    for loc in find_locales():

        print(loc)

Note that subprocess.run is new in Python 3.5. For earlier Python versions, see this question on alternative ways to run shell commands.

answered Feb 20 at 13:51

pst

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It seems like there is no good way to to this directly from Python, so I'll answer how to run this shell command from Python.

#! /usr/bin/python3

import subprocess



def find_locales():

    out = subprocess.run(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout

    try:

        # Even though I use utf8 on my system output from "locale -a"

        # included "bokmål" in Latin-1. Then this won't work, but the

        # exception will.

        res = out.decode('utf-8')

    except:

        res = out.decode('latin-1')

    return res.rstrip('n').splitlines()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    for loc in find_locales():

        print(loc)

Note that subprocess.run is new in Python 3.5. For earlier Python versions, see this question on alternative ways to run shell commands.

answered Feb 20 at 13:51

pst

1857

add a comment |

It seems like there is no good way to to this directly from Python, so I'll answer how to run this shell command from Python.

#! /usr/bin/python3

import subprocess



def find_locales():

    out = subprocess.run(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout

    try:

        # Even though I use utf8 on my system output from "locale -a"

        # included "bokmål" in Latin-1. Then this won't work, but the

        # exception will.

        res = out.decode('utf-8')

    except:

        res = out.decode('latin-1')

    return res.rstrip('n').splitlines()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    for loc in find_locales():

        print(loc)

Note that subprocess.run is new in Python 3.5. For earlier Python versions, see this question on alternative ways to run shell commands.

answered Feb 20 at 13:51

pst

1857

It seems like there is no good way to to this directly from Python, so I'll answer how to run this shell command from Python.

#! /usr/bin/python3

import subprocess



def find_locales():

    out = subprocess.run(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout

    try:

        # Even though I use utf8 on my system output from "locale -a"

        # included "bokmål" in Latin-1. Then this won't work, but the

        # exception will.

        res = out.decode('utf-8')

    except:

        res = out.decode('latin-1')

    return res.rstrip('n').splitlines()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    for loc in find_locales():

        print(loc)

Note that subprocess.run is new in Python 3.5. For earlier Python versions, see this question on alternative ways to run shell commands.

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