On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course if you're at all concerned about i18n then the proper way to > do it would be: > > ngettext("You have scored %d point", "You have scored %d points", score) % > score
Ugh, so much duplication! We can totally do better than that. ngettext(*(lambda x,s: (x,x+'s',s))("You have scored %d point",score)) Much better! Incidentally, in creating the above abomination, I found that I can't do this: >>> print(*(lambda x: (x,x+'s'))("You have scored %d point"),score) SyntaxError: only named arguments may follow *expression But I can do this: >>> print(score,*(lambda x: (x,x+'s'))("You have scored %d point")) 1 You have scored %d point You have scored %d points Why is tuple unpacking limited to the last argument? Is it just for the parallel with the function definition, where anything following it is keyword-only? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list