Controlling localization

Django-tables2 allows you to define which column of a table should or should not be localized. For example you may want to use this feature in following use cases:

• You want to format some columns representing for example numeric values in the given locales even if you don’t enable USE_L10N in your settings file.

• You don’t want to format primary key values in your table even if you enabled USE_L10N in your settings file.

This control is done by using two filter functions in Django’s l10n library named localize and unlocalize. Check out Django docs about localization for more information about them.

There are two ways of controlling localization in your columns.

First one is setting the localize attribute in your column definition to True or False. Like so:

class PersonTable(tables.Table):
   id = tables.Column(accessor="pk", localize=False)
   class Meta:
       model = Person

Note

The default value of the localize attribute is None which means the formatting of columns is depending on the USE_L10N setting.

The second way is to define a localize and/or unlocalize tuples in your tables Meta class (like with fields or exclude). You can do this like so:

class PersonTable(tables.Table):
   id = tables.Column(accessor='pk')
   value = tables.Column(accessor='some_numerical_field')
   class Meta:
       model = Person
       unlocalize = ("id", )
       localize = ("value", )

If you define the same column in both localize and unlocalize then the value of this column will be ‘unlocalized’ which means that unlocalize has higher precedence.