5 Jun
1998
5 Jun
'98
12:13 p.m.
Catching up on some issues...
"KM" == Ken Manheimer <klm@python.org> writes:
KM> The first item is the ability to edit the new-member welcome
KM> message.[...]
KM> I think we would have to change the format substitutions,
KM> currently all the "%s" order dependent style, to be
KM> "%(real_name)s" dictionary substitutions, and otherwise do the
KM> same kind of thing we do for the html templates. (Ah, i see
KM> barry's done that in some recent checkins.) There is a bunch
KM> of messages, some which may benefit from this treatment, other
KM> might just clutter the list admins choices.Dragon subsequently mentioned Digicool's DocumentTemplate stuff, and that might certainly be a long-term goal. One of the short term things I'd like to do is to move most of the triple-quoted-strings of text that serve as templates, out of the .py files, and into text file in say, $prefix/data. Then convert them to using dictionary interpolation of values. I think this will help move us in a direction of being able to do things perhaps like I18N, using DocumentTemplate (perhaps), etc. It'll certainly make it easier to track down and change various publically visible texts.
-Barry