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1. Locale date formatting in Python    stackoverflow.com

How do I get datetime.datetime.now() printed out in the native language?

    >>> session.deathDate.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y")
    'Fri, 12 Jun 2009'

2. Format date based on locale in python    stackoverflow.com

I have a date output like

>>> import time
>>> print time.strftime("%d %B")
19 July

3. Python: date formatted with %x (locale) is not as expected    stackoverflow.com

I have a datetime object, for which I want to create a date string according to the OS locale settings (as specified e.g. in Windows'7 region and language settings). Following Python's

4. String formatting python    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to understand what option value n exactly does in string formatting for the type flag. PEP 3101 says (in the section on available integer types):

'n' - ...

5. Why does Python store German and Spanish (and other?) time format strings as %T in the locale module?    stackoverflow.com

I'm writing a test for a program that will be used in multiple locales. While running the test in German, i got the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", ...