On 17/09/18 09:53, Niki Spahiev wrote:
Is it possible to use f-strings when making multilingual software?
When i write non-hobby software translation is hard requirement.
At this moment, it seems that this is not possible.
My use case is not very unique and that's why I wrote the proposal in
the first place. I'm working on a web server / application server. On
the web, you have to take the users preferences into account, including
language. If a user has the navigator configured for English, I have to
return English (if I am doing i18n).
That's why I would like to see a parameter that can be passed to the
f-string.
I don't think this should be too problematic, really.
pygettext.py extracts strings surrounded by _('') My proposal would be
to do that with f-strings. Let pygettext.py extract f-strings.
The compiler can then rewrite these to normal unicode strings. For
instance: f'Hi {user}'.language('es') would become T(_('Hi {user}'),
'es', user=user)
My first email had pseudo-code. This is my working function.
def T(translatable_string, language=None, *args, **kwargs):
if args:
print(args)
if 'es' == language:
# Return translated, formatted string return
es.gettext(translatable_string).format(**kwargs)
# Default, return formatted string return
translatable_string.format(**kwargs)
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