python datetime localization

What do I need to do (modules to load, locale methods to invoke, etc.) so that when I call:

datetime.date(2009,1,16).strftime("%A %Y-%b-%d")

instead of getting:

Out[20]: 'Friday 2009-Jan-16'

i get spanish/french/german/... output

Out[20]: 'Viernes 20开发者_Python百科09-Ene-16'

without having to change my whole operating system's locale (i.e. just use python calls to dynamically set the locale and keep the changes scoped within my app)

Thanks.

locale.setlocale()

On Ubuntu,

$> sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
$> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
$> python
>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'es_ES.UTF-8')

Also, have a look at the babel project.

After setting your locale (with locale.setlocale) You can use the locale modules' nl_langinfo method like so:

time.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_T_FMT), time.localtime())