Why don't you define a LOCALIZE function (x → x) like in your C example?
Le lun. 3 févr. 2020 à 13:01, Soni L. <fakedme...@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> On 2020-02-02 11:29 p.m., Eric V. Smith wrote:
> > On 2/2/2020 8:28 PM, Soni L. wrote:
> >> It'd be cool to attach metadata to string literals that doesn't end
> >> up in the resulting string object. This metadata could be used by all
> >> sorts of tools, everything from localization to refactoring.
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> >> In C, some localization libraries use macros for it, such as:
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> >> #define LOCALIZE(s) s
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> >> and it acts like an annotation, and then you do:
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> >> printf("%s", get_localized(locale, LOCALIZE("This string gets
> >> extracted and used in language files")));
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> >> And I think Python could do better and have special string literals
> >> explicitly for this purpose.
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> >> It could even be something with fstrings, like: f"{#localize}This
> >> string gets extracted and used in language files"
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> >> Ofc, there's nothing preventing one from using something like
> >> f"{(lambda _:'')('localize')}This string gets extracted and used in
> >> language files" today, but I feel like having some sort of dedicated
> >> syntax for it would be an improvement.
> >
> > You might want to look at PEP 501.
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> > Eric
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> Oh. No, I want it to return plain strings.
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> e.g. you should be able to replace an existing
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> MY_STRING = "This string gets extracted and used in language files"
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> MY_STRING = [uhh idk what would go here tbh]
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> and maintain full backwards-compatibility.
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> It's for external tools to consume, not for python code to consume.
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