How to display locale sensitive time format without seconds in python

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Published on 2010-03-24T12:50:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 12:53 UTC
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I can output a locale sensitive time format using strftime('%X'), but this always includes seconds. How might I display this time format without seconds?

>>> import locale
>>> import datetime
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_IE.utf-8')
'en_IE.utf-8'
>>> print datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%X')
12:22:43
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'zh_TW.utf-8')
'zh_TW.utf-8'
>>> print datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%X')
12?22?58?

The only way I can think of doing this is attempting to parse the output of locale.nl_langinfo(locale.T_FMT) and strip out the seconds bit, but that brings it's own trickery.

>>> print locale.nl_langinfo(locale.T_FMT)
%H?%M?%S?
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_IE.utf-8')
'en_IE.utf-8'
>>> print locale.nl_langinfo(locale.T_FMT)
%T

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