On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > > As for internationali(s/z)ation, we'll see who writes the most > > docstrings. > > Indeed. There are some notes on the OLPC wiki at > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_i18n > > It seems to be just a question of adding at the top of add_newdocs.py > > from gettext import gettext as _ > > ... and putting the docstrings in a _() function call, although perhaps > I miss something important, like a performance hit?
Possibly a significant one. This could affect startup times, which I am hesitant to make worse. > This would catch > everything in add_newdocs at least. It seems like a relatively minor > change if you are overhauling anyway? add_newdocs() could do that, but the usual function docstrings can't. The rule is that if the first statement in a function is a literal string, then the compiler will assign it func.__doc__. Expressions are just treated as expressions in the function body and have no affect on func.__doc__. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
