This python package includes a loadable icu extension module for sqlite. This allows other python packages to use this extension without requiring dependencies outside of the python ecosystem. For more details on the extension itself, see the official documentation.
Install the sqlite-icu package from pypi.
Install via pip
pip install git+git://github.com/karlb/sqlite-icuor add this to you requirements.txt:
git+git://github.com/karlb/sqlite-icu
import sqlite3
import sqlite_icu
conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
conn.enable_load_extension(True)
conn.load_extension(sqlite_icu.extension_path().replace('.so',''))
# now use as described in https://www.sqlite.org/icu.html
assert conn.execute("SELECT upper('i', 'tr_TR')").fetchone() == ('İ',)