Using Python locale or equivalent in web applications?

Question

Python\'s locale implementation seems to want to either read the locale from system settings or have it be set via a setlocale call. Neither of these work for me since I\'d like

Answer 1

Don't use setlocale.

Check how it is done in django. It looks like they use class api of gettext library and do not use the setlocale function I bet there is a reason for this.

They manually store a translation per thread check here how it is implemented (gettext function and _active dictionary).