On Aug 11, 2015 10:10 AM, "Alexander Walters" <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:
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> This may seam like a simplistic solution to i18n, but why not just add a method to string objects (assuming we implement f-strings) that just returns the original, unprocessed string.  If the string was not an f-string, it just returns self.  The gettext module can be modified, I think trivially, to use the method instead of the string directly.
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> Is this a horrible idea?

This is a backward compatible macro to elide code in strings that should not be.

* IIUC, this would only be usable in 3.6+ (so, not at all and style guide says NO)
  * there should be a normal functional() way to accomplish this in a backwards compatible way
  * formatlng() / lookup() would be more future compatible

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> - Alex W.
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