babel.localedata

exists(name)

Check whether locale data is available for the given locale.

Parameters:

name - the locale identifier string

Returns: bool

True if the locale data exists, False otherwise

load(name, merge_inherited=True)

Load the locale data for the given locale.

The locale data is a dictionary that contains much of the data defined by the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). This data is stored as a collection of pickle files inside the babel package.

>>> d = load('en_US')
>>> d['languages']['sv']
u'Swedish'

Note that the results are cached, and subsequent requests for the same locale return the same dictionary:

>>> d1 = load('en_US')
>>> d2 = load('en_US')
>>> d1 is d2
True

Parameters:

name - the locale identifier string (or "root")
merge_inherited - whether the inherited data should be merged into the data of the requested locale

Returns: dict

the locale data

Raises:

IOError - if no locale data file is found for the given locale identifer, or one of the locales it inherits from

Module localedata

exists(name)

list()

load(name, merge_inherited=True)