What is a way to get current Windows (or OSX) Locale id on Python 2.x. I want to get an int (or str) which tells what language in OS is active. Is possible without using WinAPI?

This is the documentation related to the locale module in Python 2.6. To be more specific, here is an example (from the above link) of how to get your system's locale: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>import locale loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale locale.getdefaultlocale() # Tries to determine the default locale settings and returns them as a tuple of the form (language code, encoding); e.g, ('en_US', 'UTF-8'). </code></pre>

Python: get OS language

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This is the documentation related to the locale module in Python 2.6.

To be more specific, here is an example (from the above link) of how to get your system's locale:

import locale
loc = locale.getlocale() # get current locale
locale.getdefaultlocale() # Tries to determine the default locale settings and returns them as a tuple of the form (language code, encoding); e.g, ('en_US', 'UTF-8').