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hildogjr
hildogjr

Reputation: 876

Get currency for country using `locale`

There is a way, using localeon python to get the currency of a specific country or having the currency code, knows which countries that official use this currency?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2443

Answers (2)

Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

Reputation: 136409

It might be possible for you to use my mpu package:

import mpu
ger_currency = mpu.units.get_currency('GERMANY')
eur_currency = mpu.units.get_currency('EUR')

Now you have a mpu.units.Currency object:

>>> ger_currency.__dict__
{'code': 'EUR',
 'exponent': 2,
 'symbol': '\xe2\x82\xac',
 'withdrawal_date': None,
 'numeric_code': '978',
 'entities': ['GERMANY'],
 'subunits': '',
 'name': 'Euro'}

By now, the entities entry is just the current entity.

Upvotes: 2

Matt W
Matt W

Reputation: 476

import locale

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US')
db = locale.localeconv()

db is a dict() containing a bunch of keys, one of which (int_curr_symbol) is the currency symbol for the locale.

Dump it or see the locale documentation for more.

Upvotes: 1

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