[Python-Dev] The "i" string-prefix: I18n'ed strings

Fri Apr 7 16:38:33 CEST 2006

On 4/7/06, Alexander Schremmer <2005a at usenet.alexanderweb.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:07:26 -0400, Martin Blais wrote:
>> > There are cases where you need N_() after initialization, so you need
> > both, really. See the link I sent to Alex earlier (to the GNU manual
> > example).
>> On the page you were referring to, I cannot find a particular use case that
> does not work with the idea sketched above.

Okie. Here's one example from actual code:
 class EventEdit(EventEditPages):
 def handle( self, ctxt ):
 ...
 # Render special activate/deactivate button.
 if ctxt.event.state == 'a':
 future_state = u's'
 actstr = N_('Deactivate')
 else:
 future_state = u'a'
 actstr = N_('Activate')
 values = {'state': future_state}
 rdrbutton = HoutFormRenderer(form__state_set, values)
 page.append(rdrbutton.render(submit=actstr))
HoutFormRenderer.render() expects non-translated strings, and it
performs the gettext lookup itself (this is a general library-wide
policy for all widget labels).
(This is just one example. I have many other use cases like this.)