On 06/22/2013 07:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:_fmtstr = "Item wrote to MongoDB database {0}, {1}" msg = _fmtstr.format(_arg1, _arg2)As a general rule, I don't like separating format strings and their arguments. That's one of the more annoying costs of i18n. Keep them in a single expression if you possibly can.
On the contrary, i18n should be done with config files. The format string is the key to the actual string which is located in the file/dict. Otherwise you're shipping separate source files for each language -- blecch.
The program that's intended to be internationalized is written using "programmereze" strings. That's a strange inhuman language that's only approximately comprehensible by the developer and close associates. Then that gets translated into a bunch of language-specific config files, with English probably being one of them.
-- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
