Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-1ubuntu2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream
I've stumbled on this issue recently, and while searching if this was already reported somewhere, I've found upstream bug #30854 in Savannah. Looks like it wasn't forwarded to neither the old nor the new bug mailing list, so I'll do it now, make his words mine, and add a few comments on my own: Mon 23 Aug 2010 05:10:05 PM GMT, original submission by David Planella https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?30854 --------------- Currently the gettext tools support only the old Python string format for substitutions, that is, %s or %(variable)s type strings. Python standards PEP 0292 [1] and PEP 3101 [2] recommend the use of $foo and {foo} strings. More and more Python applications migrate to this new syntax, and it would make sense for the gettext tools to support it. The ones I can think, off the top of my head: xgettext to extract {foo} and $foo strings from Python files and mark them as python-format in the .pot templates msgmerge -c to validate those [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0292/ [2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/ ----------------- I think he means msgfmt -c, since AFAIK there's no msgmerge -c A few remarks on my own: The 3 formats currently co-exist in Python 2: %(foo)s is used by the % operator, as in "%(foo)s" % {'foo':bar} {foo} is used by the str.format() method and format() builtin, as in "{foo}".format(foo=bar) or format("{foo}",foo=bar) $foo is used by the Template class, as in "$foo".Template(foo=bar) The % format is deprecated in Python 3, and, while still widely used in Python 2, its usage for new code is discouraged. format() is the new standard. See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.format That said, I urge gettext to support at least the new format() syntax. If it's not possible to support 3 different syntax rules simultaneously, at least give Python users a way to choose one of the sets, using xgettext's --flag for example -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-32-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gettext depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.4ubuntu3.1 Debian package management system ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-1ubuntu2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu10.4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcroco3 0.6.2-1 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libglib2.0-0 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgomp1 4.5.1-7ubuntu2 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libunistring0 0.9.3-1 Unicode string library for C ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4ubuntu0.4 GNOME XML library Versions of packages gettext recommends: ii curl 7.21.0-1ubuntu1.3 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii wget 1.12-1.1ubuntu3 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages gettext suggests: pn gettext-doc <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
