Were I work we have had to do this very thing to support I18N in our forms. Something as simple as a ":" is not a given. Maybe I want a " :" instead? This could be a form parameter or even a locale setting.
My 2 cents, Ted On Mar 29, 9:10 am, "Todd O'Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:02 +0000, Jonas Maurus wrote: > > > I think there are lots of situations where you need to normalize the > > > labels with some string. Why not just make it an optional parameter to > > > the Form class with a default value.. maybe ":"? > > > > Rune > > > so that would make > > > name = forms.CharField(label='What role do you want to play?') > > > into > > > name = forms.CharField(label='What role do you want to play', > > punctuation='?') > > > for *sometimes* saving you from typing one character? I still think it > > makes no sense to append anything at all. Not to mention the pending > > unicodization... the Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Cyrillic alphabets > > don't use western punctuation... > > > Unless there's a better argument than sometimes saving one character > > or being backwards-compatible to 0.96, I'm still against this. > > However, I don't carry much weight around here ;-) > > I think he was suggesting in the form, not each field: > > form = forms.Form(punct='') > > would let you create a form with no colons. You could also do something > like > > form = forms.Form(punct='-->') > > or whatever. This would also allow you to override the punctuation based > on locale. Seems like a not bad solution. People who hate the colons > could create their own subclass of Form and use it instead of the > default form and then they wouldn't have to set the punct value each > time. > > Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
