[issue36875] argparse does not ship with translations

2019-05-10 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Many modules contain translatable strings. CPython does not ship with translations of any of them and I believe it is against policy to do so. 1. Core developers, though an international group, are not competent to create or approve translations. 2. Core de

[issue36875] argparse does not ship with translations

2019-05-10 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Carmen Bianca Bakker added the comment: I have created a prototype for the proposed fix here: https://github.com/carmenbianca/argparse I'm not a regular Python contributor, so I simply copied argparse.py out of Lib and started working on my own copy. The changes are, all things considered,

[issue36875] argparse does not ship with translations

2019-05-10 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
New submission from Carmen Bianca Bakker : Although argparse contains translatable strings, translations for those strings do not ship with Python. This means that any program that uses argparse must separately translate argparse, which is a lot of duplicated work. Moreover, if argparse is tr