New submission from Jérémie Detrey <jeremie.det...@loria.fr>:
Dear all,
In the `argparse` module, the `ArgumentParser.add_subparsers()` method may call
the `_()` translation function on user-provided strings. See e.g.
3.9/Lib/argparse.py:1776 and 3.9/Lib/argparse.py:L1777:
def add_subparsers(self, **kwargs):
# [...]
if 'title' in kwargs or 'description' in kwargs:
title = _(kwargs.pop('title', 'subcommands'))
description = _(kwargs.pop('description', None))
When elements `'title'` and/or `'description'` are set in `kwargs`, they will
be popped from the dictionary and then fed to `_()`. However, these are
user-provided strings, and it seems to me that translating them should be the
user's responsibility. This seems to be the expected behavior for all other
user-provided strings in the `argparse` module: see e.g. the `ArgumentParser`'s
`description` parameter (in 3.9/Lib/argparse.py:1704 then
3.9/Lib/argparse.py:1312), which never gets translated by the `argparse` module.
However, the default title string `'subcommands'` should still be localized.
Therefore, I'd suggest restricting the call to `_()` to this string only, as in
the following:
title = kwargs.pop('title', _('subcommands'))
description = kwargs.pop('description', None)
I'll submit a pull request with this change.
Kind regards,
Jérémie.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 399212
nosy: jdetrey
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: [argparse] Do not translate user-provided strings in
`ArgumentParser.add_subparsers()`
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python
3.9
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