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Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813051
Pages 766 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
Profile icon Antonio Melé

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Format localization

Depending on the user’s locale, you might want to display dates, times, and numbers in different formats. Localized formatting can be activated by changing the USE_L10N setting to True in the settings.py file of your project.

When USE_L10N is enabled, Django will try to use a locale-specific format whenever it outputs a value in a template. You can see that decimal numbers in the English version of your site are displayed with a dot separator for decimal places, while in the Spanish version, they are displayed using a comma. This is due to the locale formats specified for the es locale by Django. You can take a look at the Spanish formatting configuration at https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/4.0.x/django/conf/locale/es/formats.py.

Normally, you will set the USE_L10N setting to True and let Django apply the format localization for each locale. However, there might be situations in which you don’t want to use localized values. This...

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