Barry Warsaw [mailto:barry@python.org] wrote:

str.format() really isn’t enough to do proper i18n; it’s actually a fairly complex topic.

Obviously.

I’m not convinced that PEP 501 would provide much benefit on the technical side.

My point exactly.

flufl.i18n - https://flufli18n.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This seems to retrieve variables from the surrounding scope, in a manner reminiscent of f-strings (though obviously implemented very differently). I would never use that for translatable strings, partly on security grounds, and partly because it adds coupling between UI texts and code. regards, Anders