[Pulp-list] Translatable strings

[Jay Dobies]

On 08/02/2012 04:34 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 04:32 PM, James Slagle wrote:
>> Just a reminder, when you mark a string for translation, you have to
>> pass the
>> string itself to _(), not a variable whose value is the string.
>>
>> This does not work:
>>
>> msg = "some string"
>> _(msg)
>>
>> You have to do:
>>
>> msg = _("some string")

Wait, really? Crap, I do that all over the place.

>> and then use msg wherever you need to.
>>
>> If the string is long and you want to wrap it across lines, use python's
>> built-in string concatenation (don't use + to concatenate strings):
>>
>> msg = _("a really really "
>>          "long string")

Had no idea this existed, good to know.

> And, do parameter substitution outside:
>
> msg = ("Some Cool %s") % "stuff"
>
> not
> = ("Some Cool %s" % "stuff")

That one I remember is still not completely correct. I forget the 
reasoning, but substitutions have to be dict based:

m = _("Some string %(foo)s")
m % {'foo' : 'bar'}


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