Sometimes, we want to do locale date formatting in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to do locale date formatting in Python.
How to do locale date formatting in Python?
To do locale date formatting in Python, we can use the babel package.
To install it, we run
pip install Babel
Then we use it by writing
from datetime import date, datetime, time
from babel.dates import format_date, format_datetime, format_time
d = date(2020, 4, 1)
fd = format_date(d, locale='en')
to call format_date with date d and locale set to 'en' to return a date string that’s formatted for the English locale.
Conclusion
To do locale date formatting in Python, we can use the babel package.
