Temporarily override locale with a context manager

Question

Is there a way to temporarily activate a locale within the scope of a block of code? Basically, I want to do something like this:

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_         


        

Answer 1

I found out that Babel better fits my use case:

>>> parse_decimal('1,25', locale='nl_BE.utf8')
Decimal('1.25')

This approach is useful whenever I need to parse a Dutch decimal and doesn't require overriding any locales at all.